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- From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker)
- Subject: Re: DEC puts first marketroid on the moon
- Message-ID: <C0K55n.AIs@dscomsa.desy.de>
- Keywords: DEC INFOSHARE Alpha lunacy
- Sender: usenet@dscomsa.desy.de (usenet)
- Reply-To: Hallam@zeus02.desy.de
- Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA
- References: <1icj25INNe3u@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> <1993Jan6.100304.616@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <kGd=p9+@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:58:34 GMT
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- In article <kGd=p9+@engin.umich.edu>, grue@rorge.engin.umich.edu (Paul Howell)
- writes:
-
- |>In article <1993Jan6.100304.616@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin
- |>Fairbairns) writes:
- |>> The thing that totally boggles me is that a (relatively) decent outfit
- |>> like DEC should be bruiting their listing in a book as tacky as the
- |>> GBR.
- |>
- |>dec just sent mail out on their dec-managers mail alias asking if in
- |>the next osf/1 release for alpha, should the most recent osf/motif 1.2
- |>release be included.
- |>
- |>is this a no brain'r or what?
- |>
- |>gbr and "would you like to use current software?" makes one wonder.
-
- Well I can see that people might possibly want to stage the upgrades. If you are
- in the position of having to get your kit working on a new O/S I can see the
- attraction of keeping to the same version of Motif while the operating system is
- unstable.
-
- In my day we used to do science experiments letting one parameter vary and
- keeping everything else constant.
-
- Quite nice to be asked in fact...
-
- --
-
- Phill Hallam-Baker
-