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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Alpha questions... 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 10:10:11 -0700
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On Wed, 07 May 1997 05:15:10 -0700 
 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote:

 > > Care to elaborate?  I'm very curious as to what the problems would be
 > > if you used the OSF palcode...
 > 
 > Well, the politics are too much to go into here (I'd have to explain
 > the various byzantine issues involved between the various Digital BUs
 > who own different and distinct pieces of the ALPHA pie, and my fingers
 > just aren't up for that anyway :) but I can say two things
 > unequivocably:

...oh, hehe, I was talking about technical problems...

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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