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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: micro-code upgrade (and VMS vs. Unix stats)
Message-ID: <6412@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 20:17:16 GMT
References: <485@cs.wmich.edu> <916@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <3729@phri.UUCP> <3623@pixar.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <3623@pixar.UUCP> rta@pixar.UUCP (Rick Ace) writes:
>However, it's
>probably true that DEC had no idea that things were going to
>get worse when they did the upgrade.

Doubtful.  It's a well-known and unfortunate fact of life that many
changes in DEC hardware and software are done mostly to break
third-party products.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
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