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From: jon@shaffer.UUCP (Jon Doran/60000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: AIX Peculiarities
Summary: IBM is #4 last I heard
Message-ID: <2534@shaffer.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 02:01:59 GMT
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Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX
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In article <16655@ut-emx.UUCP>, nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:

> Also, there is a lot to be said about the bottom line--the RT
                                                         ^^^^^^
> has simply not sold as well as workstations produced by other
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> vendors. It should not be to hard to determine why. The RT
  ^^^^^^^^

OK, so IBM is not winning any popularity contests.  And I agree
that there is plenty of room for improvement...  But IBM is
ranked 4th in workstation sales.  I'm not sure if this is by
unit or by sales.
	1.  HP	(includes Apollo Div)
	2.  Sun
	3.  ???
	4.  IBM

	?   SGI
	?   DEC

It rather surprised me, but says something.

Jon Doran
IBM AWD, Austin TX