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From: awm@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris)
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Subject: Re: Desktop publishing systems?
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Date: 29 Nov 88 14:46:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: burzio@mmlai.UUCP's message of 28 Nov 88 00:55:40 GMT

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).

I wasn't at all impressed with their stand at the UK Unix exhibition last
summer (Alexandra Palace, I think).  Although they had a number of the
9000/3?? machines on demo, 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!

Aled Morris
systems programmer

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