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From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: IBM does an impersonation of itself
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Date: Thu, 12-Jun-86 11:10:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 12 11:10:51 1986
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>      The following article appeared  in the  Wall Street Journal,
> 6/6/86, pg. 25: (reprinted without permission):
> 
> [BEGINNING OF ARTICLE]
> 
>      IBM'S IMPROVED PC KEYBOARD IS SETBACK FOR SOME SOFTWARE
>      
>      For years, users have complained about the awkward keyboards
> in the IBM Personal Computer family.   Now International Business
> Machines Corp.  has  introduced  a  new  keyboard  aimed  at such
> complaints-only to spur a new round of gripes.
>
> [...]
>
>      [END OF ARTICLE]
>      
>      Why, why, why, why, why does ANYONE patronize IBM??????
> -- 
> Gary Friedman

If a person writes a device driver or otherwise bypasses the operating system
on any minicomputer system (VAX, DG, Pr1me, etc) and the system vendor
subsequently adds to its previous offering of devices, causing the driver
to become obsolete, this would be considered unfortunate for the writer and
users of the device driver, but would otherwise be considered as business
as usual and a necessary price to pay for progress.

There are many costs and many more benefits to being number 1, as
newly-elected presidents discover.  Being judged by separate (double)
standards is part of being number 1.
is measured are part
-- 
	- bc -

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