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From: spf@bonnie.UUCP (Steve Frysinger)
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Subject: Re: IBM RT: first impressions
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 10:42:01 EST
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> > If the RT does get off the ground, it won't be because of performance,
> > but simply because it has an 'IBM' label on the front.
> > -- 
> > Tim (radzy) Radzykewycz, The Incredible Radical Cabbage.
> 
> Riiiiiiiight.  Just like the PC Jr. had. (Note past tense).
> 
> But, by all means, let's keep the theory, and throw away any data that
> don't fit.  We call that "scientific."
> 
PC Jr and RT are entirely different markets, with entirely different
consumers and consumer motives.  Behavioral "data" from PC Jr's
history is (in my opinion) not comparable to the RT situation.
"Science" requires that we compare data only from comparable
experiments.

Steve Frysinger

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