Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!grebyn!brian
From: brian@grebyn.com (Brian Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bus Master Boards
Summary: Dave makes a perceptive observation
Message-ID: <13998@grebyn.com>
Date: 8 Oct 89 02:11:05 GMT
References: <1956@convex.UUCP> <8103@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: brian@grebyn.UUCP (Brian Bishop)
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Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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In article <8103@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:

  [  lots of stuff about how IBM's new bus is no big deal ... then: ]

>and if they don't have it, it doesn't exist.  In fact, you can often 
>understand a conversation between IBMers if you substitute the phrase
>"has finally adpoted" for the word "invented".  As in, "IBM invented the
>3.5 inch microfloppy drive", "IBM invented an autoconfiguring expansion bus",
>etc.

     Ahhh!!!!   Yes, this sums up the nasty feeling I have about 'BM
entirely.   You see, I have this nightmare that I am a 40 year-old
hacker somwhere (I'm 24 now) and someone offhandedly mentions that IBM
invented multitasking when they released OS/2. Aiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!


   Brian "Caught With His .Sig Down" Bishop