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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.claremont.edu!ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!maxwell.oac.uci.edu!jvance
  2. From: jvance@maxwell.oac.uci.edu (Joachim Vance)
  3. Subject: Re: Gemulator (Falcon emulator?)
  4. Nntp-Posting-Host: maxwell.oac.uci.edu
  5. Message-ID: <2A90C503.21468@orion.oac.uci.edu>
  6. Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
  7. Organization: University of California, Irvine
  8. Lines: 24
  9. Date: 18 Aug 92 09:38:11 GMT
  10. References: <1992Aug15.044657.442@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <64054@cup.portal.com> <1992Aug17.053435.3924@microsoft.com>
  11.  
  12. darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka) writes:
  13. >But until you can buy a Falcon you shouldn't really compare
  14. >an invisible vaporware machine.... [stuff deleted]
  15.  
  16.   Just out of curiosity, at what point does something become
  17. "vaporware"?  
  18.   - Is something vaporware from the time it is announced until it comes
  19. out?  
  20.   - Or is something vaporware if it is announced and misses a deadline
  21. or two? (like FSM GDOS).  
  22.   - Or is something vaporware if it is announced and never comes out?
  23. (like the 1450XLD which I wanted so badly..:)
  24.  
  25. And how much does rumor count in something's vaporware status.  I
  26. thought that vaporware was something that just didn't ever come out.
  27. (or doesn't seem to.)
  28.  
  29. Just wondering.
  30.  
  31. --
  32. Joachim Vance
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  34.      I am antisesquipedalian--Opposed to the use of long words.
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