Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wucs1!jps
From: jps@wucs1.wustl.edu (James Sterbenz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Flame Wars
Message-ID: <830@wucs1.wustl.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 89 19:52:38 GMT
References: <8904242133.AA16384@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: jps@wucs1.UUCP (James Sterbenz)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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In article <8904242133.AA16384@umix.cc.umich.edu> FERGUSON@TMASL.EXXON.COM writes:
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>I've got an idea! Let's all start flaming on IBM, instead of Sun or Apollo!
>I hate IBM PC's minis, mainframes, and big companies (this one, at least)
>seem to be infested with them. The software, graphics, and general ease of use
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>is lousy! With Apollos, Suns, Mac's, and even (what?!) Amigas, why would
>anyone think of IBM as a choice? So how come IBM is called Big Blue?

Of course, we all know that Unix and associated tools belongs at the top
of the list of "easy to use" operating systems.

I didn't see any smileys, but assumed them anyway, since you didn't back the
flame up with specifics.

What we really need is less flaming, and more positive discussions backed up
with substantive information.

>Hope that distracted some attention...

Possibly, but on the other hand it might just start another flame thread
(but clearly not as much as if you'd said it in comp.sys.ibm  :-).

-- 
James Sterbenz  Computer and Communications Research Center
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