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From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.headlines,misc.jobs.misc,sci.electronics,talk.rumors
Subject: Re: Massive computer industry failures and layoff's coming soon!!!!
Summary: Not likely.
Keywords: markets layoffs futures
Message-ID: <3842@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 88 13:27:08 GMT
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Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Second the motion on the market remaining strong.  I've got two
perfectly good computers gathering dust in the apartment, because my
Amiga makes the older machines look sick.  Folks who learn to use and
love the C64's, Timex Sinclairs, and so on have only had their
appetites whetted for newer and better toys.  Business that can't live
without word processing, spreadsheet, and slide creation software now
will find hypertext, interactive visually modelled resource flow
simulation, and animation presentation graphics equally vital a step
down the road.

If the economy undergoes a general recession, then people will tighten
belts and make do; this may hurt the home market, but the business
market will be looking for new efficiencies, and there will be all
these promising new programs, and the techie new machines on which
they run, looking like a worried comptrollers dream.

Kent, the man from xanth.