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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: switchar
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Date: 23 Jan 89 15:25:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Jan 23 09:25:00 1989



>I agree that he loves to be controversial and is an eternal IBM basher,
>however, IBM did give him several things to pounce on like refusing to pick
>up the check.  Even our PR people pay for luncheons.  Talk about CHEAP.  Is
>the Micro Channel doing that poorly?

Yes, the MicroChannel is doing poorly - we have to buy clones
instead of Model 80's because nobody makes cards for the MicroChannel.
No big screen displays. No multichannel scalars. Nothing interesting at
all.

Of course, if IBM HAD just picked up the bill, Dvorak would have
said that IBM was trying to bribe him into saying something good
about the Microchannel.