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- From: marv@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Marv Gordon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: IBM Develops PC Product in 14 weeks
- Message-ID: <8691@orbit.cts.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:05:01 GMT
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- barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >[The following is from USA TODAY, 11/17/92]
- >
- >
- > If you think IBM won't be venturing into personal communications, think
- >again.
- >
- > [At Comdex] IBM showed a prototype device that features an on-screen keypad
- >and runs on MS-DOS. Weighing just 16 ounces, the PS/2 personal communicator
- >is run by a secret IBM chip that has the power of the first PCs IBM made in
- >the early 1980s. [I know that isn't saying much. - MB] But it also functions
- >as a cellular phone, fax machine, and PC. It can't run Lotus 1-2-3 yet, but
- >it can send and receive files via a cellular radio link.
- >
- > What's even more remarkable, considering all the flak that IBM has taken
- >lately over its slow response to new technology, is that Big Blue developed
- >the unit in just 14 weeks at its Boca Raton, Fla., facility.
- >
- > - USA TODAY, 11/17/92
- >
- >
- >[End of quoted article]
- >-------
- >
- > Commodore can't even develop a screen blanker in 14 weeks! Now that IBM
- >has improved their ability to respond to technological changes in the computer
- >industry, Commodore has now become by far the slowest company in the computer
- >industry in this respect. IBM has reduced their response time to industry
- >announcements to hours in some cases. When Compaq announced cuts in the list
- >prices of their systems, for instance, IBM responded by reducing the list
- >prices of their PS/ValuePoint systems within the same hour.
- >
- > By comparison, Commodore's response time can almost be measured in decades.
- >Commodore responded to Apple's announcement of the Mac II by shipping a system
- >with almost exactly the same capbilities five years later. And Commodore
- >responded to the standardization of high-density floppy drives in the computer
- >industry by finally adopting them on Amiga systems over four years after IBM,
- >Apple, and every other company in the industry made HD floppies standard on
- >nearly all systems. Commodore still has not developed any CD-ROM drives for
- >their A2000, A3000, and A4000 systems, and still has not developed any
- >notebook Amigas to penetrate the exploding notebook PC market. Commodore can
- >probably be expected to ship these products on the fourth or fifth anniversary
- >of the availability of these products by other companies.
- >
- >---
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- >--------------------------------------------------
-
- Do you have ANY idea what your talking about? IBM is MAGNITUDES bigger in
- terms of revenue than CBM. IBM has been dictating industry direction for the
- most part of the last 30 years!
-
- Every time company xzy comes out with product abc you go on a CBM bashing
- rampage. Get a life Marc. Get your stinking degree and see what the REAL
- world is all about.
-
- Do you think CBM has a bottomless pit of cash? Should they try to address
- EVERY stinking area of PC production? Hit EVERY market? ... You seem to think
- so. You're wrong. But you have been wrong so many times that we all expect
- it. If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen......
-
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