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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: more on the 386! 
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 23:32:05 EST
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In article <491@enmasse.UUCP> dave@enmasse.UUCP (Dave Brownell) writes:
>In article <8@i80386.UUCP> kds@i80386.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker) writes:
>> First, thanks for all the offers of congratulations!  Second, an apology
>> for this note being a little late, I was out of town for a while, but as
>> a result, unix has now been running on the 386 on 3 continents!
>*****	FLAMES ON MEDIUM
>Looks like there's now a USENET machine dedicated to deluging us with
>i80386 ADVERTISING.  I've seen at least TWO of the EIGHT postings from
>that machine.  They've been almost ALL ADVERTISING. 

Hey, Ken was the guy who ported Xenix to the first silicon of a device
which is among the most complicated ever designed. I would think
people would be pleased to hear from such a primary source. It's not
as though he were marketing slime. He's a real engineer/programmer.
And I think he has a right to be proud of this accomplishment.

Would you be upset if Dennis Ritche posted an article about Unix
on USENET? 

>thousands of dollars of other people's money to keep your advertising
>budget down.)

The question is whether members of this net want to hear such things.
The answer seems to be, for the most part, yes. And it isn't as though
the postings were that many bytes. Try reading net.flame or net.audio
as a comparison.

And intelca does more than its share for the net, they aren't just a
free-loading leaf node.

It would be a shame if postings such as yours inhibited the good
technical people like Ken Shoemaker from sharing with the network.
-- 
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