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May 1999, Week 1

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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 3 May 1999 17:13:38 -0700
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Glenn Cole quotes news.com quoting Brad Day speaking for Giga Information
Group:

>However, the 3000 line always
>will play second fiddle to the HP 9000 systems running HP-UX, HP's
>Unix operating system, he said.

I was trying to come up with a clever bit of sarcasm to respond to this,
but I couldn't. This was puzzling, since I usually have no trouble
thinking up sarcastic remarks. I finally figured out that the statement
is so completely vacuous that there's nothing there to parody.

Damn.

-- Bruce


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