Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Criteria ... [really: are N designs better than 1?]
Message-ID: <1989May11.205949.1969@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 20:59:49 GMT

In article <18154@cup.portal.com> bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian bcase Case) writes:
>I think these discussions are very interesting, after all, I did read all
>of John's posting, but they are nearly completely inappropriate for comp.arch,
>...
>Maybe I am alone in my interpretation of John's note.  If so, just tell me
>to go away.

Please go away. :-)

It suffices that the discussions are interesting, factual (an all too
common problem area for many posters, but *not* John), and more or less
relevant.  Splitting hairs about whether it "really belongs" in comp.arch
is silly; where else would it go?  Like it or not, issues of implementation
affect architectures.
-- 
Mars in 1980s:  USSR, 2 tries, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
2 failures; USA, 0 tries.      | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu