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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Don't count IBM out yet
Message-ID: <5797@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 10:36:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  9 10:36:26 1987
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References: <422@yabbie.rmit.oz> <425@yabbie.rmit.oz> <5083@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <5083@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>, zrm@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks) writes:
> Corporate buyers will begin to fall in love with Apple because Apple
> will have a wide, compatible range of products that won't soon be
> obsolete. Meanwhile IBM thrashes around with the 286 vs. 386 operating
> system decision, the window system problem, and the 386 vs. PC/RT
> product planning problem.

Well, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.  Business does not always make
wise decisions.  Besides, IBM looks like it is coming to grips with their
PC problems by making a new market.  If they can't compete in the MS-DOS PC
market, they announce their new PCs -- Excuse me -- "Personal Systems" based
on the 8086, '286, and '386.

These machines, from what the magazines say, will run DOS 3.2, but they were
really designed to run CP-DOS, IBMs own PROPRIETARY operating system.  IBMs
PC plans for the next few years will be based upon this new machine which, like
the Mac, is allegedly unclonable.  It's also supposed to connect very nicely to
IBM mainframes (through the 3270 protocol) which is something that the Mac, from
what I hear, still doesn't nicely do.

The machine will also have a nice high-resolution bit-mapped display, a
windowing operating system (which is compatible with MS-Windows), come standard
with a mouse, have a very small footprint, stop me if you've heard this...
--
"I can feel her                                Peter Merchant
 but she's nowhere in sight."