On  Wed, 14 May 1997 Wirt Atmar wrote:

> Larry Boyd asks:
>
> > O.K., I'll bite.  How much of this was "real"? :)
>
> Part of the pain associated with publicly kidding around once and
> while is that you're not believed when you say something seriously.
> Perhaps I should stop with the jokes.
<snip>

No!  Please don't!!  I enjoy them too much.  Besides, part of the fun
is trying to figure out which is real and which is not...  It keeps
life interesting and sometimes makes us think about things in
different ways than we might have otherwise.

For example, how many of you had ever even conteplated the following
before Wirt observed...

> There's no reason why the HP3000 can't be the world's best, most
> robust, most useful, and most scalable PC.

And I had always thought that I worked on a mini-computer!  :-)

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