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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: 1 May 91 20:50:28 GMT
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daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>need a PC Compatible, why buy it from IBM.  Anyway, we had something posted
>on the wall around here that said IBM lost some 1 billion+, they can't be
>doing too well all around to lose that kind of green.  

  I think this was a mistake in the original news reports, which was
later retracted.  IBM didn't go into the red this last quarter.  Their
profits may have dropped a huge amount ($1 billion), but they were
still in the black if I recall correctly.

Sidenote:  You realise how big IBM really is, when their profits for
one quarter are the same as a company like Apple's revenues.


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