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From: davidtay@interport.net (David Tay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hubbard's article in BYTE
Date: 20 Dec 1995 14:18:55 -0500
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:

: Unfortunately, I didn't say this.  My editor did. :-(  They also made
: up the interesting new term of "ISP Pentium", which made my hair stand
: straight up when I saw it. :(  Perhaps DELL will play ball by actually
: making one now and I won't have to feel so bad! :)

That's why I hate editors (I work in publishing). Invariably, they're 
always clueless. And seemingly paranoid. Must be why they have this 
complex about castrating every writer out there.

--David Tay