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- From: acb@Ziggy.csl.ncsu.edu (Andrew C. Burnette)
- Subject: Re: Alpha Prices -- Any Idea out there??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.203119.9534@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Nov10.171427.8022@PA.dec.com> <1992Nov10.175108.28116@eng.umd.edu> <1992Nov10.203541.28218@aosg.gsf.dec.com> <BxMAwn.IK7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:31:19 GMT
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- In article <BxMAwn.IK7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, schwartz@feh.scs.uiuc.edu (Dwight A. Schwartz) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov10.203541.28218@aosg.gsf.dec.com> reeves@decvax.dec.com writes:
- |>
- |> >
- |> >Well, looking at the one under my desk, I see:
- |> >
- |> > . ISDN with a "don't use this or you go to prison" sticker
- |>
- |> Sorry if this seems a waste of bandwidth, but I was wondering what
- |> this "don't use" comment means?
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- |> Dwight
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- |> Dwight
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- |> Dwight A. Schwartz ---- "Help! I've fallen asleep and I can't get up!" -VL
- |> University of Illinois Department of Chemistry | Box 10-1 Noyes Laboratory
- |> 505 S. Mathews Ave. | Urbana, IL 61801-3664 | 217-333-3776 | 217-244-2355
- |> i-net: schwartz@feh.scs.uiuc.edu | bitnet: schwartz@uiucscs_--____-___-_-__
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- With DEC, it usually means they wish it was functional but it isn't. Most likely
- they can't get the software right(tell me another good story).
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- We bought one of their first turbo bus XPG (graphics) accelerators. They delivered
- a working Xserver three months after the hardware was in house. Go figure.
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- All in all though, OSF-1 looks good, and the alpha machines are fast as hell.
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- Andrew C. Burnette acb@ncsu.edu
- Computer Systems Laboratory
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