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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: 417K waste of money postings (was: Re: PICNIX V3)
Message-ID: <21649@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 17 May 88 07:19:42 GMT
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Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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In article <44310@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>One should also keep in mind that the Unix boxes (don't you love
>anthropomorphism?) are paying the vast majority of the cost of the network.
>Currently they tolerate the pc binaries, but many of them are
>clearly not happy about it.

Perhaps so, but the Unix box this msg was sent from is owned by a
billion dollar company whose most important product (which I work on)
gets a great deal of benefit from the PC groups. I personally would
scream long and loud if anything happened to them. And I am sure my
boss would back me up. 

-- 
Make Japan the 51st state!

I speak for myself, not the company.
Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com