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  • Subject: Re: CA/400 Win95 Twinax problems
  • From: Neil Palmer <NPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 14:47:59 -0400
  • Organization: NxTrend Technology - Canada

Bill Robins wrote:
> 
> >I, and I'm sure hundreds (thousands?) of others also pi**ed away
> untold
> >hours of time trying to get Twinax emulation working in the original
> >releases of CA/400 for Win95, and the fact that Rochester KNEW about
> >the problem, that they did NOT spread the word to customers - OR EVEN
> >THEIR OWN SUPPORT STAFF - is TOTALLY INEXCUSABLE - and I FULLY
> support >what Bob did/said at COMMON.  It took FAR too long for this
> to be >resolved (and even now it's really only solved with the new
> 5250 >Express twinax cards for many people - which you of course have
> to >buy!).  Someone had to wake them up and get their heads out of
> their >a**es !! (Ooops - I probably should have been 'P.C.' and said
> "get >their heads out of the sand").
> 
> But, both you and Bob are missing one of the big points in my reply.
> His statement was made without qualifications.  Of course he is
> justified in criticizing IBM, anyone is who has had to struggle
> through
> this mess.  Unless I am forgetting parts of his statement at the
> soundoff it ran along the lines of "Bob Cozzi, blah blah, I think
> Client
> Access is a piece of crap.  Thank you." Yes, this is an outrageous
> paraphrase, but is this not the jest of what was shared?


Maybe he left his qualifications at home in his other suit !
(Cozzi, Suit ?  OK I guess those words don't belong in the same
sentence).

Anyway Bill, I see your point.  However to be fair to Bob - your alloted
time at sound-off is limited and if he had gone into detail on all the
problems with CA/400 no one else would have had a chance to speak !   

                ;-)    :-o     :-( 


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