Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.arch Subject: Re: 386 Family Products Message-ID: <182@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:22:56 EST Article-I.D.: opus.182 Posted: Wed Oct 30 04:22:56 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 03:12:29 EST References: <129@intelca.UUCP> <392@aum.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 15 Xref: linus net.micro:11302 net.arch:1774 > I object to this press release hype here in net.micro. This seems to me to be > a DEFINITE NO-NO for this newgroup. This is not technical data it is corporate > back-patting. Please don't lower this newsgroup to this level!!!!!!! If this > needs to be on the net, there are better places for it. I posted a (mildly critical) followup to the 386 announcement before I encountered this (not so mild) response. I went back and re-read the parent article. I also realized that I'd seen info about the 386 in a glossy trade [rm]ag at least a week before the article appeared in net.arch. The more I think about it, the more I tend to agree with the assessment above--but I'd still be happy if we could pry some substantive information from Intel instead of chasing them away completely. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...At last it's the real thing...or close enough to pretend.