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- From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: FAQ maintainer needs some leverage on Dell
- Message-ID: <1hXZsT#3qpByg6hRzL33zSMVK1VOhZl=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 06:09:58 GMT
- References: <1hSxpl#4ykCq26b2MJt3dCW2l1Cxdqm=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> <1992Aug18.024806.14787@pcthree.com> <1hVYCD#7ZSkQz2cy1MT8bqvGm2nJD38=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> <1992Aug21.000654.6386@wrangler.WLK.COM>
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- In <1992Aug21.000654.6386@wrangler.WLK.COM> Bill Kennedy wrote:
- > I suppose that my remarks and questions could be misconstrued as twisting
- > Eric's tail, so be it. I'm not impatient (well maybe a little) that it's
- > not done, I'm impatient because I followed up to a black hole. Has there
- > not been enough time to collect the vendors' equipment? Was some of it
- > broken and therefore delayed its evaluation? I can't believe that Eric's
- > too busy to tell us what's going on, he has been quite vocal answering
- > other items. So what's the score? I'm going to keep asking until someone
- > answers.
-
- No offense taken. The Bake-Off is still happening...very slowly. I've
- received one machine from Swan Technologies. I'm expecting another from
- Gateway. Two other well-known vendors have said they want to participate,
- but for various reasons haven't pushed systems through their pipeline yet.
-
- Yes, indeed, I expected to have completed the whole thing by now. But I
- reckoned without the bureaucratic-inertia factor. I expect now that I'll
- be receiving and testing machines until almost the beginning of '93.
- --
- Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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