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- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: why I love SGI
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:16:16 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211110916.18@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <Bx79Gy.GtJ@encore.com> <Bx7n3x.C0z@encore.com> <9211050805.42@rmkhome.UUCP> <Bx9Kp5.DFA@encore.com> <schnitzi.721417007@eola.cs.ucf.edu>
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- In article <schnitzi.721417007@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
- >dlwilson@fenix.encore.com (David L Wilson) writes:
- >
- >>Well, if by "slunk" you mean shutting down all facilities, laying off
- >>most of the local workers and transferring corporate headquarters to
- >>Florida, then yes, you could say Encore slunk out of Massachusetts.
- >
- >>Encore's doing fine, thank you, supplying 88000-based multiprocessors to
- >>anyone who wants one. One nice thing about that is there is no shortage
- >>of computing power. I have an 8 processor mini, with 1M of cache, 128M
- >>of memory and a 1.2gig disk to call my own. Mine, all mine!!
- >
- >Great. Yet another DiskSizeWar. How many nudie GIFs can that hold?
- >I'm sure my brother can tell you.
-
- When Encore first started up, it seemed like they were going to produce a
- revolutionary product. A number of people that I know went to work there.
- Then Encore decided to move to a low-wages, low-taxes state, and left a lot
- of people out of work.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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