Re: Fwd: Re: Alpha central to 64-bit plans

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

Pete,

  I sent him (and his editor) one in the same vien also but he didn't
favore me with a reply.  I agree with your evaluation of his response to
you.  We're probably starting to get to them.

  BTW - did we ask him to report on any 64bit PCI Cards?  And I didn't
know that Tom Dick and Harry were 64 bit!

  Larry Bolhuis
  Arbor Solutions, Inc
  lbolhui@ibm.net

Pete Hall wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> >X-Lotus-FromDomain: IWP
> >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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