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From: ins_aeas@jhunix.UUCP (Earle A .Sugar)
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Subject: Re: IBM RT: first impressions
Message-ID: <1972@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 09:41:20 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 22 09:41:20 1986
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> > > Seriously, though, whenever you bring in a certain three letters
> > > into the subject, then performance becomes moot.  Certain people,
> > > many of whom are in the position to make purchasing decisions,
> > > would tend to buy anything and everything they can from IBM.  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.
> > 
> Personally I don't think I would ever buy anything IBM makes.
> 
> 				Jerrold L. Gray
> 				uw-beaver!teltone!dataio!pilchuck!jgray

     IBM is a state of mind more than anything else.  IBM means guaranteed
medocrity.  For corporate purchasing types who have covering their posteriors
as the main priority, rather than trying to get the best price/performance
ratio, IBM is fine.  For those who want better than mediocre, IBM is a
target of scorn.

-- 
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Earle A. Sugar
Disclaimer:"I doubt anyone else here agrees with me."
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