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From: ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Where does UNIX fit in a graphically-based computer world?
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Date: 8 Sep 90 22:50:25 GMT
References: <1990Sep5.202652.700@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <1990Sep5.224940.19185@world.std.com> <1990Sep6.161554.28923@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1990Sep6.161554.28923@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>I personally find both Sun and HP workstations quite distasteful.  Prejuidice
>aside, I think it's a mistake to not to mention NeXT, IBM, and DEC.  DEC
>makes better machines with better UNIX than Sun or Appollo.  IBM is, of course,
>IBM, and as UNIX moves into the mainstream more and more knee-jerk IBM'ers
>will buy IBM stuff.

Uh, one point here Steve.  I think you will find that IBM really knows
next to nothing about UNIX.  It was quite surprising to us here when we
were looking at their new 6000 series, but they are complete doorknobs
on UNIX.  We had one of our UNIX guru's go to them, and they were real
eager to sell to us, so they brought out their "experts".  Ha ha ha ha
ha ha!  <BZZZZZTTTT> Wrong answer.  They have a lot of catching up to do
with companies like Sun.  Sun has many years of experience integrating
their GUI over UNIX.  Not to say it is the best system it could be, but
there is something to be said for a working and tested system.

Eric