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From: asong@pro-nbs.cts.com (Andi Song)
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Subject: Re: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for July 1991
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Date: 30 Jun 91 04:22:32 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET

        Lessee...

        "And a Utility Infielder to be Named Later?"(Apple and IBM)-who
                                                        cares...
        "In the Pink,"(Macintosh)-who cares...
        "IBM's Quadi486,"(IBM)-who cares...
        "Massively Parallel i486,"(IBM)-who cares...
        "NeXT Takes a RISC"(NeXT)-who cares...
        "Windows 3.1"(IBM)-who REALLY cares...
        "Video Transformer"(Commodore)-I don't care...
        "Multimediaware"(Mac)-Who cares...
        "Poor Man's Windows"-(IBM)-nobody cares...
        "Solid Ink Color Printers"(Probably IBM and MAC only)-so I don't
                                                        care at all...
        "20th Century Albatross?"(IBM)-you'd look like a nerd, so I don't
                                                        want to care...
        "Icon Abuse?"(IBM)-so what?
        "Dr. DOS 6.0"(IBM)-who cares...
        "3-D Software for Macintoshes with System 7"(Mac)-we want System
                                                        6...
        "Shirt Pocket Computing"(IBM)-see "20th Century Albatross"...
        "System 7 Features Under A/Ux"(MAC)-uh-huh...
        "Microsoft Applications"(IBM)-snore...
        "Postponed"(IBM)-sknnxxxxxx...

        You know it's bad when rumor columns about IBMs and Macs filter in
to your Apple II net, but when there's not even one RUMOR about the II?
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