[rescue] FA: PDP11 Qbus cards CPU and Memory

[Dave McGuire]

On March 25, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Dave, you are not an authority on all things DEC any more than I am.

  Well, not quite true, considering the fact that a lot of your
information is simply wrong...and I clearly have a LOT more experience
with this type of hardware than you do.

> You're showing off your USA-centric pig-headed superiority complex, big
> time.

  Oh yeah...because you're not grown-up enough to admit when your
wrong.  Filling in gaps in knowledge with bullshit is pretty
transparent with this crowd, and you've been doing it to an increasing
degree for months now.  Do you *really* think we're that stupid?

> Just because you didn't have an LSI-11 "badged" SYSTEM, doesn't mean
> nobody ever did.  Certainly the one I had was no figment of my
> imagination!  Remember that we live in different countries.  DEC had
> large manufacturing facilities in Canada (and the same goes for other
> counties on the other side of the pond).  Not everything we had here was
> derived from, shipped to, or marketed in the same way, as it was down
> south of our border.

  Send me photos and I'll be closer to convinced.  Until then, you're
spouting your usual clueless bullshit.

  So much for your "far deeper" understanding of all things
computer-related.  You missed (or ignored?) my entire point when I
tried to explain the difference between PDP-11 architectures and
PDP-11 implementations etc etc.  DEC didn't redefine their basic terms
for different countries, and individual facilities didn't have that
kind of latitude to do it on their own.  So the "I'm in another
country and it's different here" defense won't work...you're WRONG,
you don't know what you're talking about, and that's that.

> > > Ah, yes, on that point you're absolutely right --  the Professional 300
> > > series used the "CTI-bus"
> 
> (not to be confused with the modern H.100 Computer Telephony Integration
> bus, of course)

  I suppose this makes you "cool" or something...

> >   Ahh, finally a name for that bus!
> 
> You bought and sold and used them and never knew the name for the bus!?!?!?
> 
> something there is unbelievable.....

  You'd better believe it.  At least I can admit when I don't know
something.  I've just never had occasion to know the name of that bus.
Upon consultation of the Pro Series handbook, it does indeed make a
passing reference to that name.

> >   Fucking idiot.
> 
> likewise, I'm sure.

  You're just tying to get into my pants. ;)

> If I'm "argumentative and adversarial", what the hell do you call
> someone like you who's ever so much more of the same, but with a
> distinctly agressive and emotionally driven bent to the extent that I
> don't think I've ever observed you in an argument where you haven't
> resorted quite quickly to ad hominem attacks.  Just like this one.

  Ad hominem attacks?  How about facts, corrections to bad information,
and credit where credit is due for being a flaming incompetent asshole
with a God complex?  That's all that's been going on here.  If you
choose to read more into it, that's your problem.

  Further...you'd better believe I'm agressive about it.  Clueless
people piss me off...I have absolutely NO use for them, and no
patience with them.  I absolutely HATE it when morons with a tidbit of
knowledge (usually limited to terminology, like yours) try to play the
"I'm an authority" game to make themselves look important, assuming
that everyone around them is stupid enough to believe their bullshit.
Well, we're not.  Having a huge ego is fine...as long as you have
something to back it up.

  And you don't.

  Have a nice day.

       -Dave

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