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From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fairchild Clipper performance? (really: myths & magazines)
Message-ID: <975@winchester.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 20:41:25 EST
Article-I.D.: winchest.975
Posted: Mon Nov 23 20:41:25 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 23:07:35 EST
References: <56700004@ada-uts> <6745@apple.UUCP> <916@winchester.UUCP> <989@edge.UUCP> <1276@bucsb.UUCP>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1276@bucsb.UUCP> einstein@bucsb.UUCP (David K. Fickes) writes:
...
>don't want you cutting down their clients on page 1...  Look what
>happened with Digital Review.  DR published some "leaked information"
>and was banned from: (1) DEC press conf. (2) all other outlets of
>DEC - controlled information (3) No DEC advertising....

Actually, it turns out that DR got "reinstated" pretty quickly: too many
DEC product managers complained up the line that DR was an important
channel for them. [source: DR people]

Maybe this does show it's possible, anyway.  There certainly is a fairly
symbiotic, often love-hate relationship amongst vendors and trade press.
-- 
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