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From: muth@amdahl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Minor historical point: the origin of ms-dos
Message-ID: <5428@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 13:39:00 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.5428
Posted: Wed Jan 28 13:39:00 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Jan-87 02:10:50 EST
References: <8520@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1270@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1486@rayssdb.RAY.COM>
Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA
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Summary: IBM stuff flop?
Xref: watmath comp.sys.amiga:1754 comp.sys.mac:1003 comp.sys.m68k:184 comp.sys.ibm.pc:1223

In article <1486@rayssdb.RAY.COM>, rxb@rayssdb.RAY.COM (Richard A. Brooks)
writes:
>                                                          (could any-
>  thing with the IBM name flop??)

This is a joke, right?

Things with the IBM name flop all the time. Look at the PC Portable (IBM's
answer to Compaq) or the PC Jr (who could forget that?).

And don't forget about the 8100.
-- 
John A. Muth           ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun,nsc}!amdahl!muth