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From: mwhulls@watlion.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM new 'standard'
Message-ID: <7946@watlion.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 20:05:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 20 20:05:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 16:14:57 EST
References: <1010@rpics.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: mwhulls@watlion.UUCP (Mike Hulls)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: proprietary not upwardly compat. OS is goof...
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In article <1010@rpics.RPI.EDU> chassin@rpics.RPI.EDU (Dave Chassin) writes:
>Does anyone understand why IBM is making the same mistake Apple
>made with the Mac?  [...]
>This seems to me to be
>undoing the very thing that made them blow Apple away. 

Shhh!  Don't say it too loud, IBM's peabrains might notice
and do something approaching intelligence.  Give them enough
rope, and they'll hang themselves eventually!

IBM IS DYING!IBM IS DYING!IBM IS DYING!IBM IS DYING!IBM IS DYING!IBM IS DYING!

-steve rapaport, not michael hulls.