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From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.202908.13776@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 20:29:08 GMT
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In article <20915@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>IBM didn't stop the personal computer revolution, anymore that one guy dragging
>his feet would stop a truck rolling downhill.  But IBM had big feet, and they
>definitely slowed things down.  Using disinformation techniques they borrowed 
>from the Bavarian Illuminati, they continue to covertly discourage the use of
>non-IBM compatible systems.  After all, it has not really been that long since
>they lost control of the Clone market.  After all this time, their nearest
>competitor, Apple, is still trying to make the five million mark.

Data point: according to the Wall Street Journal, for the first time in a
decade, Apple sold more PCs than IBM over an entire fiscal quarter. (1Q91)

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