[rescue] Getting steadily further from [intended epithet] rescue

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Wed Oct 1 09:08:26 CDT 2003


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:48:50PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:42:35AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > Yes, but you're in Germany, right? 
> Yes.
> 
> > Geoff is in Israel.  What you do is
> > not really relevant to what people where he lives other than him do.
> I thought "here" = "rescue list". 

I figured.  You must have missed a couple of the earlier messages on
this thread.

> Sure there are regional differences. E.g. Macs are quite uncommon in 
> Germany. 

*nod*  So I've heard.  I've been told that SGI never gained any
significant market penetration in the UK;  I'd bet good money that
outside of possibly the Ministry of Defence, neither did CDC.  And, of
course, virtually no-one in the US has ever heard of ICL or the RSRE
Viper chip.


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