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From: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing systems?
Message-ID: <1455@zen.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 88 12:19:18 GMT
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In article  awm@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris) writes:
>HP have a marketing presence in the UK, there is often a full page
>colour advert in the trade papers (Computing, Computer Weekly, etc.) and
>often in the newspapers too (at least in the Grauniad).

Yes but this is seldom anything to do with their workstations. Most of the
adverts I see are for HP printers/plotters/instruments. When was the last time
that you saw an ad. saying how wonderful Precision Architecture was?

>                           there was no-one at the show who knew anything
>about hp-ux (h-pux as someone once said).  The guy who I talked to said
>that they had just been at a CAD/CAM exhibition, where no-one had asked
>them about Unix, so they didn't expect much hassle at the Unix show!

Typical. HP just haven't a clue. The perfect opportunity to show off and they
blow it!

>Aled Morris

			vic