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Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 02:38:00 EST
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Nf-From: gorgo.UUCP!bsteve    Apr  6 01:38:00 1987


>HAHAHA I laugh.  

I'm not laughing. Compatibility issues aside these are a definate improvement
on what they were making before.

>Maybe the 3.5" disks were destined to become the new standard,
>but making that change with these new machines was really rotten.

I could take issue with this statement too. The smaller disks are faster
and offer 2 to 10 times as much storage.

>Totally new bus architecture.  Why? Definitely NOT to improve the
>field ... it was to try and confuse the competitors.

This is flat wrong. The old bus was too slow for multiuser applications
with a 1 MB/second bandwidth and no pipeline. The new one is designed with
multitasking OS's in mind and is said to support much higher disk transfer
rates.

>New Video adapters ... try and get it right this time .....

This is an important step forward, supporting a software independent
interface for a variety of video hardware interfaces.

>New operating system .... lets wait and see.

Guess what? UNIX! So you can teach an old dog new tricks :-)

I know that I shouldn't honor this diatribe with commentary, but IBM is
made of people just like us. They work hard to make a product that will
make them a buck just like everybody else.

I work for another vendor and this is (of course) my own opinion. Each of
us makes a difference in the quality of technology that we  produce. We
do not promulgate quality through hatred of anyone. Let's serve to be part
of the solution to our industry's problems or we are just another problem
ourselves.

   Steve Blasingame (AT&T Oklahoma City)
   bsteve@gorgo.att.com

(Company affiliation provided for identification purposes only)
(Opinions expressed herein are my own and do not represent opinions of AT&T)