Yo! GARY:
Thursday September 12 1996 06:02, GARY WESTFALL wrote to BILL CHEEK:
 BC>> Don't get me started on AOR............  Arrrgh!
 GW> Well, what's the _rest_ of the story now that you have teased us?
Writers and publishers have a problem.  When we talk in a bad light about 
something, it tends to not only chap the hides of the manufacturers and 
vendors, but to hurt the feelings of the users.
Here is a FACT or two, though:
1.  AOR does not document its technology into anything resembling a
    -=quality=- service manual.  This may be of no consequence to Joe
    Schmuck, the bus driver.  It is an issue to me, where time is valuable
    and where I won't mess with a scanner unless I have a decent roadmap
    and technical backing.  If a company doesn't document its products
    all that well, then it might be up to quick kills and fast sales.
2.  AOR does not have a wide system of distribution.  In fact, with just
    one importer/distributor, competition is thrown out the door, and
    prices are sky-high as a result.
There's more, but you catch my drift in terms of the facts..........
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