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- From: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.145808.5309@darkcube.radig.de>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 14:58:08 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.010954.265191@cs.cmu.edu>
- Sender: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@darkcube.radig.de
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Jul24.010954.265191@cs.cmu.edu> spot@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves)
- writes:
- > >>>>> On 23 Jul 92 15:55:13 GMT, doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- said:
- >
- > Dennis> Perhaps Volker Herminghaus-Shirai is smarter than all those
- > Dennis> customers : maybe his freely-given opinion is somehow more
- > Dennis> important than the "voting with their wallets" millions of PC
- > Dennis> buyers have done. But it's not important to Intel's bottom
- > Dennis> line.
- >
- > he probably is. :)/2
- >
- > in any caes, he has the source code to the programs he depends on;
- > compatibility is only a compile away. selling binaries is the
- > problem.
-
- To Scott Draves and Dennis O'Connor:
- Read my posts. Thoroughly. Think. Think again. Then answer.
-
- Thank you.
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@darkcube.radig.de)
-