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From: adam@ncifcrf.gov (Adam W. Feigin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: New product?
Keywords: non-dis-clo-sure
Message-ID: <1499@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Date: 6 Feb 90 02:28:56 GMT
References: <749@npiatl.UUCP> <1107@gort.cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: adam@ncifcrf.gov (Adam W. Feigin)
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In article <1107@gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) writes:
>In article <749@npiatl.UUCP> dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes:
>>Just got an invitation to an IBM product announcement.  Anyone know what
>>is being introduced?
>>
>>Invite read:
>>
>>	Unix users, you are invited to the launch of a very significant
>>	IBM product.  February 15, 1990.
>>
>>
>   If you ask me, I'll say:
>
>        "The Sparcstation I and the DECstation 3100 are very
>         significant products."

Not that anyone asked me, but I just CANT resist:

"Significant for IBM, but not for the rest of us....just another in a
long series of products that IBM has introduced to try to gain a
foothold in the workstation market, only to fail in doing so. When
will they ever learn."
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Internet: adam@ncifcrf.gov			Adam W. Feigin
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If someone from IBM comes up to you and says they support Unix, run
very fast in the opposite direction; they are lying.
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Internet: adam@ncifcrf.gov			Adam W. Feigin
UUCP: {backbonz}!ncifcrf!adam			Senior Systems Manager
Mail: P.O. Box B, Bldg 430	National Cancer Institute-Supercomputer Center
      Frederick, MD 21701		Frederick Cancer Research Facility