Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ur-valhalla!micropen!dave From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 at USENIX this week Summary: you've seen Message-ID: <640@micropen> Date: 30 Jan 89 17:10:59 GMT References: <4325@decvax.dec.com> Organization: Micropen Dirent Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY Lines: 37 In article <4325@decvax.dec.com>, lp@decvax.dec.com (Larry Palmer) writes: > You've seen the ads. You've seen the hype. ># > You've read the articles. You've read the marketing BS. ># > You've heard the gossip. You've been inundated by vapor. ># > Come see the real thing! Come see someone else's machine resold by DEC! ># > Look for the Digital Hospitality Suite. > All this week at Winter 1989 USENIX. Look for gratuitous DEC propaganda crossposted to several USENET groups you read. ># > See the DECSTATION 3100 (code name: PMAX). See a DEC so crippled by mid-70's technology they can't produce competitive machines of their own designs. ># > Hit the keys and ring the bells on the > hottest new product in the UNIX marketplace! Hit the panic button: Olsen and the boys are out to sell some quick "snake-oil"! inews: i hate you. inews: i hate you. inews: i hate you. inews: i hate you. -- David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc. micropen!dave@ee.rochester.edu "The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll