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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: The New IBM Wonder-Crocks...
Message-ID: <2939@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 01:45:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.2939
Posted: Sat Apr 25 01:45:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 20:30:25 EDT
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Distribution: world
Organization: Whole Earth Lectroinic Link, Sausalito, CA
Lines: 32
Keywords: typical, IBM, weirdness
Summary: Will they never learn?

[ Guru Meditation Number 43626C6C.20432D41 ]

	I just saw an IBM PS-2/60 today.  The demo it was running was pretty
sleazy, so I broke out of it and got into DOS.  I then saw something that
made me groan.

	Their zeros are non-standard.  That is to say, they no longer look
like this:				They look like this:

	 00000					 00000
	0    00					0     0
	0   0 0					0  0  0
	0  0  0					0  0  0
	0 0   0					0  0  0
	00    0					0     0
	 00000					 00000

	Clearly, this makes the machine totally useless for any real work.

	I hope IBM loses in a big way with this monster.

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