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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!npri6!murphy
- From: murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: PATCH on ALPHA ?
- Message-ID: <6137@npri6.npri.com>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 18:53:38 GMT
- References: <0096002A.BA95BC00.3347@tchden.org> <1992Sep3.164358.253@winkle.bhpese.oz.au>
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- Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA
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- >Secondly, compare the experience of the average VMS patcher with that
- >of your average ALPHA patcher. I hope this doesn't offend anyones
- >pride too much, but I wouldn't really put a lot of trust in a patch on a
- >fairly new machine (You can't even buy them yet!) compared to a newly
- >compiled program. How many ALPHA gurus can there be in the industry by now?
- >And so what proportion of developers will be able to successfully make use
- >of PATCH?
- >
- >robbie@winkle.bhpese.oz.au
-
- i agree (obviously) with your claim that there can't be too many
- experienced ALPHA patchers. however, i must point out that your
- conclusion is overly optimistic: since there will be a demand
- for ALPHA patches, all the more reason to start _now_!
-
- "*how* many registers? hey, what happened to my arglist??"
- -- me
-
- ok
- dpm
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