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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Killer Micros
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.040602.19785@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 89 04:06:02 GMT
References: <3257@husc6.harvard.edu> <46500089@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1989Nov26.142026.26642@phri.nyu.edu> <1989Nov27.171937.9661@world.std.com>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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Me:
> nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
> To most people in corporate America, making any kind of decision [...]
> means taking the path which is least likely to get you fired.

In <1989Nov27.171937.9661@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein):
> 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 meant it as neither advice nor threat, simply as an observation
on the state of the world, as I percieve it.  People make safe decisions,
with more regard to immediate loss prevention and short-term profit than to
long term goals.  Were this not true, the American Computer Industry would
find some way to prevent the Perken-Elmer/Nikon deal.  Were this not true,
companies like Sun would be jumping all over each other to get in on the
ground floor of rebuilding the American DRAM industry.  Were this not true,
the Giants wouldn't be playing their damn "prevent" defense!
-- 
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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