Bell Hardware Tech Specs (Open Letter to Dimitri)
Jeffrey Kegler
jeffrey at algor2.algorists.com
Wed Feb 14 13:56:55 AEST 1990
Dimitri was kind enough to reply to my posting. For those who missed
it, he had asserted, as part of a long response to some other
criticisms, that technical specs for the Bell Tech hardware had
always been available to customers and even sometimes driver source as
well.
I posted in follow-up that I, a loyal Bell Tech customer, had called
for these specs and been refused.
Dimitri replied by E-mail, "the technical specs/reference guides were
always available from Bell, but through the sales people. Sorry you
had a hard time with the tech support crew." Actually, it was a Sales
person (Kristine Burr) who sent me to Tech Support, telling me I
needed their permission.
My reply to Dimitri bounced, and I intended to post a summary to this
group anyway. He gave me the name of a man at Intel to whom to write.
I will do so and the net know what, if anything, happens. "No
guarantees!" is Dimitri's prognosis.
If the situation is
1) the specs were freely available, but ...
2) I didn't get them by mistake and ...
3) now the mistake is cleared up but ...
4) I can't have them anyway,
I think we have sort of a Catch-22 here.
I would be interested in hearing from anyone else who got the
technical specs for any of the Bell Tech ACE, IWS or XTC boards.
I apologize to Dimitri for not giving him the courtesy of a separate
personal reply, but it bounced.
--
Jeffrey Kegler, Independent UNIX Consultant, Algorists, Inc.
jeffrey at algor2.ALGORISTS.COM or uunet!algor2!jeffrey
1762 Wainwright DR, Reston VA 22090
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