Fwd: Re: Alpha central to 64-bit plans

I sent a brief note to David last night. It had a congenial tone and was not 
inflammatory in any way. I copied his editor too. His reply seems just a tad 
defensive...

Pete

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>From: "David Pendery" <David_Pendery@infoworld.com>
>To: Pete Hall <peteh@inwave.com>
>Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:06:26 -0400
>Subject: Re: Alpha central to 64-bit plans
>
>Pete,
>You all are members of some IBM AS400 newsgroup or users group, right?
>
>You all completely missed the point, and seem to have no idea what
>reporting news is about. I am NOT a public relations professional. I have
>no responsibility to report about products that were not in the news on my
>beat last week. Compaq and DEC, in case you didn't realize, were in the
>news.
>
>If, as you all righteously and fervently believe, I am obligatedto report
>on IBM's godlike 64-bit capabilities,even though they were not in the news
>last week, then should I not also include in my story SGI's, Sun's, HP's,
>and every other Tom, Dick and Harry who has a 64-bit server, OS or PCI
>card?
>And yet, I did not deluged with indignant email from any of these others.
>Hmmm. Sorry guys, you tipped your hand and blew your credibility.
>
>David Pendery
> 
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