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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: RISC: What did they leave out besides the instructions?
Summary: The smiley faces
Message-ID: <3583@rti.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 90 04:54:08 GMT
References: <60@paradigm.com> <2010@sunquest.UUCP>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <2010@sunquest.UUCP>, terry@sunquest.UUCP (Terry Friedrichsen) writes:
> In article <60@paradigm.com>, gjc@paradigm.com writes:
> > The person from MIPS must have thought he was pretty clever
> > with his posting about number of instructions per user.
> > [ ... ]
> > Probably he didn't actually KNOWN ENOUGH to be able to give
> > an informative answer to what is actually a very reasonable
> > question.
> 
> Gawd, some folks have absolutely NO sense of humor whatsoever ...

It seems that there are, unfortunately, a fairly large number of people
on the network that can't seem to understand humor unless they are hit
over the head with a 2x4.

That's why the ":-)" was invented - to indicate to such people that
the posting is a joke, and consequently is something they can't
understand, so that they don't clutter things up with flamage about
how stupid the original article was.  I've been burned too by their
ranting when I didn't add the requisite 2x4's to the article.

Non illegitimi carborendum (or however the Italians spell it).

:-) :-) :-)      <-- appropriate 2x4's for the dimwitted.

					Bruce C. Wright