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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com!bjs
  2. From: bjs@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Barry Sherman)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.photo
  4. Subject: Re: Big/fast EOS lens advice sought
  5. Message-ID: <7aeD02fM2bEp01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 19:49:42 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov11.001842.12592@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1992Nov11.002345.9996@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1992Nov11.215216.4214@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1992Nov13.222446.9024@clark.edu> <1992Nov13.193547.3344@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
  8. Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com
  9. Reply-To: bjs@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Barry Sherman)
  10. Followup-To: rec.photo
  11. Distribution: usa
  12. Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
  13. Lines: 25
  14.  
  15. Alvin Chia-Hua Shih writes:
  16.  
  17. >Instead of flaming each other, why don't you flame the marketroids who
  18. >seem to always have Feature A deleted from Camera X so that they can sell
  19. >more of Camera X' (which is, of course, more expensive, but missing some
  20. >little thing to entice you into buying the even more expensive Camera X'')?!?
  21.  
  22. Right-on Alvin!  
  23.  
  24. Barry
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  28. |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  29. | Barry Sherman, Amdahl Corp.  | PROGRAM: n. A magic spell cast over a com-  |
  30. | bjs@ruts.ccc.amdahl.com      | puter allowing it to turn one's input into  |
  31. |                              | error messages.  tr.v. To engage in a pas-  |
  32. |                              | time similar to banging one's head against  |
  33. |                              | a wall, but with fewer opportunities for    |
  34. |                              | reward.                                     |
  35. |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  36. | Amdahl, being a corporation, is a legal fiction.  Therefore it is incapable|
  37. | of holding, let alone expressing, opinions.  Unfortunately, this has been  |
  38. | said of me as well.                                                        |
  39. |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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