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- From: kwthomas@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas)
- Subject: Re: New HP Workstations
- Originator: usenet@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu
- Sender: usenet@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Usenet Administrator)
- Message-ID: <BxMo8o.HMC@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:05:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.151337.29372@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <1dtq85INNb7o@trwvssi.vssi.trw.com> <BxM0Mu.2B3@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Organization: National Severe Storms Laboratory
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- In article <BxM0Mu.2B3@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
- >In article <1dtq85INNb7o@trwvssi.vssi.trw.com> b_kondalski@trwvssi.vssi.trw.com (Brian J. Kondalski) writes:
- >>Actually I'd like to see someone compile a list of all the current workstations
- >>and show their performance relative to each other (maybe even with the list
- >>prices for a similar configuration). I'd be willing to do it if someone would
- >>mail me the specs for the various platforms.
- >
- > That should not be posted to the net. Advertisements and blatently
- >commercial postings such as a ranking or rating or listing of
- >commercial workstation products do not belong anywhere outside
- >comp.newprod or biz.* or alt.*.
- >
- > Such information should be emailed rather than posted to the net.
- >This is long standing stuff if one goes and reads old postings on
- >netiquette in news.newusers and other such places.
- >
- >Ran
- >atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
-
- I disagree. New major product announcements and pricing info should be made
- available to people in groups such as this. These announcements are big news,
- and there are a lot of us that really need the information.
-
- People are talking about the new Sun products, including pricing in the Sun
- groups. I've yet to see one complaint about this, and I really appreciate the
- information.
-
- Kevin W. Thomas
- National Severe Storms Laboratory
- Norman, Oklahoma
-