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From: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
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Subject: Re: Anti-motif crybabies should chill out, get a *life*
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Date: 7 Sep 90 17:47:02 GMT
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In article <811@auto-trol.UUCP> marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) writes:
>
>     Well, I can tell you what would happen if SPARC (god forbid) ever
>     dominated the workstation market: 
>
>     ******************************************************************
>     You will consider IBM an open, free and friendly organization
>     compared to Sun of those days.
>     ******************************************************************
>

First: SPARC does dominate the market according to most pundits
(depending on how you interpret the share of high-end 386/486
machines, and how you define dominate).  Furthermore, a substantial
fraction of the of machines in the sub-$5000 workstation market (i.e.
the machines that really crank up your installed base) slated for 
release this year are SPARC based (the rest are 680x0...again, 
depending on your feelings about 386/486 machines).

Second: This IBM comment...you have some sort of proof for this (like,
say, IBM licensing it's CPU technology to 3 or 4 fab houses, and
having RIOS machines built by 4 or 5 other manufacturers), or are you
just spouting anti-Sun crap.  I say crap.  

The worst thing about these flame wars (Sun v. everyone, IBM v.
everyone, OL v. Motif, etc.) is that the facts fall by the way-side, 
and we get slobbering peons who can't resist the magical draw of 
the 'F' key to spread this kind of unsubstantiated, bigoted crud...

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	ken seefried iii		ken@dali.gatech.edu

	"Vee haf veyz off making you talk...release da veasles..."