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From: paulr@mips.COM (Paul Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Killer Micros
Message-ID: <32267@tau.mips.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 89 23:57:48 GMT
References: <3257@husc6.harvard.edu> <46500089@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1989Nov26.142026.26642@phri.nyu.edu> <1989Nov27.171937.9661@world.std.com>
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Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1989Nov27.171937.9661@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>>	It has always been a truism that nobody ever got fired for buying
>>IBM.  It's probably true today that nobody ever gets fired for buying DEC.
>>To most people in corporate America, making any kind of decision (from
>>which million dollar mainframe to buy to which brand of toilet paper should
>>go in the executive john) means taking the path which is least likely to
>>get you fired.
>>-- 
>>Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
>
>I assume everyone realizes that phrase is not a bit of quaint advice
>but a salesperson's threat to a customer wandering from the fold?
>
>I didn't think so. But it's rather disgusting, up there with Tex
>Antoine's infamous "lay back and enjoy it" advice to rape victims.
>-- 
>        -Barry Shein
>
Yeah, and the Emperor is wearing new clothes too !

/pgr

-- 
/pgr
I don't want to work,I just want to bang on the drums all day - T Rundgren

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