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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!uk.ac.man.cs
- From: rogersh%p4@uk.ac.man.cs (Huw Rogers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: From inside the cathouse...
- Message-ID: <6046@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 17:31:39 GMT
- References: <Arthur_The_Cat@acorn.co.uk> <2Hacd3j020n@khantazi.welly.gen.nz>
- Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
- Organization: Murder Inc.
- Lines: 39
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- In article <2Hacd3j020n@khantazi.welly.gen.nz> banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- :postmaster@acorn.co.uk (postmaster) writes:
- :
- :> Think about a 12MHz ARM2as + VIDC + MEMC all macrocelled and packaged within
- :> the same ASIC... The word is Acorn have got one in the lab codenamed "Louie";
- :> and it's currently being bugfixed prior to use in forthcoming machines. As to
- :> whether this is MEMC1a/2 and VIDC2/20, anyone care to leak some more?
- :
- :Path: tornado!sideways!newshost.wcc.govt.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!acorn.co.uk!postmaster
- :Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- :
- : It is interesting to note that all of Acorn's news postings seem to have
- :a path of !mcsun!acorn!<user> rather than this ones !acorn.co.uk!<user>.
- :Given that and the sender line and I wonder who the smart alec is at
- :Berkeley...
-
- It's even more interesting to note this control message originating from
- Acorn as a consequence of the original Berkeley article:
-
- :Path: mucs!uknet!acorn!postmaster
- :From: postmaster@acorn.co.uk
- :Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- :Subject: cancel <Arthur_The_Cat@acorn.co.uk>
- :Message-ID: <18365@acorn.co.uk>
- :Date: 8 Sep 92 09:58:41 GMT
- :Control: cancel <Arthur_The_Cat@acorn.co.uk>
- :Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- :Lines: 1
- :
- :The original message is a fake.
-
- Lending credence where none is supposedly due...
-
- -Huw
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