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From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Anti-motif crybabies should chill out, get a *life*
Message-ID: <811@auto-trol.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 90 23:58:06 GMT
References: <4875@mitech.com> <4265@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <4265@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>In article <4875@mitech.com>, gjc@mitech.com writes:
>> Why must we have 5 or 10 messages from ANTI-MOTIF crybabies every
>> time a simple announcement about MOTIF is posted to this mailing list?
>
>     Feeling the pressure, eh?  Six of every ten workstations sold today are
>SPARC-based.  Sun market share is approaching 40% by dollar volume.  Sun will
>outsell DEC by a factor of 5 to 1 this year.  And just imagine what will
>happen when those Japanese SPARC clones hit the US early next year.  Man, I
>can't wait for my $2,995 SPARC machine to put on my desk at home.
>
     Well, I can tell you what would happen if SPARC (god forbid) ever
     dominated the workstation market: 

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     You will consider IBM an open, free and friendly organization
     compared to Sun of those days.
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