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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The "Consipiracy"
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.034224.28188@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 03:42:24 GMT
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In article <908@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:
>Do you really believe that the management at either IBM or Microsoft has
>the "smarts" to do that on purpose?  What really made the Intel/IBM joke-
>
>Dan Taylor
>/* My opinions, not NCR's (obviously). */


I always wondered w IBM wasn't more protective of their name.  Computers 
were and are marketed as 'IBM compaible' or as 'IBM clones' all over the
place and I am almost sure that IBM could have easily stopped this.  I can
remember when the IBM PC comercials were some of the most fequently run
comercials on TV.  That cost millions of dollars and then IBM let everyone
and their dog sell IBM compatibles.  Constrast that with Apple Computer and
the suits brought against microsoft and HP.  

Also, how else can you explain the 68000 being around for so long before
Intel finally spit out the 2.  Contrast that with the more competitive
386vs 68030 and the 486 vs 68040 we see now.

Did you ever hear about all the coruption that was involved wit the trans-
continental rai?  It cost the country millions of dollars and involved
most members of congress who owned stock in phoney companies who won 
phoney contractson the railroa.  This stuff goes on all the time.  Big
time coruption is the american way.


                                     NCW