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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: CURSES package for Atari ST
Message-ID: <207@obie.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 88 19:22:13 GMT
References: <711@leah.Albany.Edu> <3640@haddock.ISC.COM> <192@obie.UUCP> <51411@sun.uucp>
Organization: Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch
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Summary: Hmmm...  No sarcasm in Net-Land today!

In article <51411@sun.uucp>, guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
| > > What do you mean, "on the VAX and the UNIX"???  Everyone knows that "VAX"
| > > and "UNIX" are synonymous!  Just ask the folks at Berkeley!
| 
| "Mr. Lint" may explain this, but I'll mention it as well:
| 
| 	Statements such as the above are generally referred to as "sarcasm".  I
| 	somehow suspect Karl knows better than to equate VAXes and UNIX.
| 	Unfortunately, there are zillions of people out there who *don't* know
| 	better.
| 
| > Come on, Mr. Lint!  EVERYONE knows that UNIX is synonymous with SPARC!
| 
| Gee, I don't "know that UNIX is synonymous with SPARC"; my current machine
| happens to have a SPARC chip in it, but I work with 68K machines and
| occasionally 80386 machines and VAXes as well.  (The nice thing about a
| portable OS such as UNIX is that 99% of the time it doesn't matter what chip
| the machine uses; the same OS runs there.)
| 
| It is conceivable that some Sun sales and marketing people may be trying to
| convey the *impression* that UNIX is synonymous with SPARC; such people should
| be tarred and feathered and dumped outside the city limits.
| 
| > (Ack!  Phhpptttt!  Panic: no TAS instruction!  vmcore dumped)
| 
| No, SPARC has no instruction named TAS; the test-and-set instruction on SPARC
| is called LDSTUB (Atomic Load-Store Unsigned Byte).
| 
| Have you actually *read* the architecture manual carefully, or do you just
| think a detailed knowledge of something is unnecessary if you want to make
| reasonable comments about it?

Yes, and once again, you net-landers have proved to have your heads
firmly inserted in your hind ends.  As you say, ``Statements such as
the above are generally referred to as "sarcasm".''  (Note: placement
of the period was your mistake, not mine).  I was replying in the same
sarcastic vein as Karl was.  Of course, since I didn't follow it with
9 dozen lines of :-), you couldn't tell that, could you?

No, this posting was not at all sarcastic, it was meant entirely as a
chastisement to this pin-head, Guy Harris.  :-( :-( :-(  Does that
convey the message?
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