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From: wayne@teemc.UUCP (//ichael R. //ayne)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM RISC System/6000  AS/400 (actually a diversion on the topic)
Message-ID: <103335@teemc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 90 07:15:42 GMT
References: <20714@cfctech.cfc.com> <1990Feb28.042949.21952@edm.uucp> <0093307E.0B7FBDC0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <1586@zipeecs.umich.edu> <00933154.7F943660@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: wayne@teemc.UUCP (/\/\ichael R. \/\/ayne)
Organization: TMC & Associates, Troy, MI
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In article <00933154.7F943660@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>
>Yes, but how long are you going to continue to pay for VMS, get SCREWED by
>Digital on VMS licensing agreements, and pay for boxes which are two to three
>times slower for the same dollar amount? 
>
>Not to mention peripherials which cost significantly more than what you can
>find in an "open" systems such as Suns.  


	Posted by someone who has NO understanding of the power of marketing.
I know of companies that do that and persist in telling you how much
better off they are than if they had to use that "horrible Unix operating
system".  I don't claim to understand HOW they do it, but it gets done.

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