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From: ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.arch
Subject: Re: 386 Family Products
Message-ID: <718@othervax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 10:22:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 10:22:41 1985
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Reply-To: ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn)
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Summary: 


The 386 announcement on the net was not by itself objectionable, indeed I
enjoyed the obvious enthusiasm for a "job well done" (we hope) by the
poster.  A new processor product announcement is obviously of general
interest to the net readership, both Intelites and others.

The followup (non)descriptive posting was however questionable, and the
solicitation for information requests *by e-mail over the net* should
definitely not have appeared.  There are *competitors* of Intel on the net,
why should they be bearing the cost of supplier-customer communications?

I recently posted an article in net.news.group & net.micro.amiga on this
subject, specifically being concerned that net.micro.amiga is turning into a
dialogue between Commodore-Amiga and their software developers.

Ray Dunn.   ...philabs!micomvax!othervax!ray