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From: chassin@rpics.RPI.EDU (Dave Chassin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.misc
Subject: IBM new 'standard'
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Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 20:49:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 20:49:04 1987
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Keywords: proprietary not upwardly compat. OS is goof...
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Does anyone understand why IBM is making the same mistake Apple
made with the Mac? In other words why are they making a machine
the won't run any of the applications that currently run on IBMs,
that is a completely closed box, and that nobody know anything
about vis-a-vis what's goin' on inside? This seems to me to be
undoing the very thing that made them blow Apple away. Apple
has understood but IBM hasn't. Strange isn't it? I guess now
that we're seeing Compac compatible machines IBM is worried
they're loosing touch. 

I'm baffled. Anybody else? Or maybe you've got some insight
as to the why's of IBM product development policy?

Dave Chassin

PS: You can be sure I'll never buy one of those. What for? So
I can throw $3000 of AutoCAD software, and $nK of random other
stuff? Forget it!!!


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