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- From: mgrice@athena.mit.edu (Matthew Grice)
- Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
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- In article <1992Dec19.012947.13106@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
- >As for all this IBM stock stuff, I think it's pretty obvious that anybody
- >who is selling IBM stock right now (and there is a lot of it) is about
- >as stupid as you can be.
- >
- >If I had -any- money, I'd be buying IBM stock YESTERDAY! Come on, a
- >blue chip like big blue at it's lowest point in a decade? And people
- >are -selling-? Do these people think IBM is going to go bankrupt or
- >something???
-
- These IBM-bashers are _absolutely_ ridiculous. If I had any money
- (saving it all for MIT :)) I'd be buying IBM left and right, too.
- GM may be losing money, but IBM is nowhere _near_ in the kind of
- trouble that American car makers are. People seem to have forgotten
- that, unlike the American car makers, imo, IBM will always be here,
- making money, and dominating.
-
- Yesterday, in the Wall Street Journal, I saw the biggest piece of anti-
- IBM, pro Microsoft-Intel propaganda bullshit you ever saw. To my
- surprize, Microsoft-Intel were suddenly taking over Big Blue.
- (at least, that is the impression it gave) Suddenly, Windows NT
- was taking over the world, and OS/2 was not even mentioned. Well, I
- guess it was mentioned once. In a pie chart with 1% of the share.
- None of the problems with NT were mentioned, except at the end, where noone
- reads to anyway.
-
- Speaking of anti IBM-OS/2 propaganda, anyone see the latest Byte?
- Look at this rundown.
-
- Got a prize Didnt (conspicuous in abscence)
- _______________________________________________________________________
- Windoze 3.1 OS/2 2.0
- Compaq Prolinea PS/valuepoint
- Tons 'o Windoze programs Not a lot of other programs
- HP's cheapline
- Solaris 2.1
- SPARClassic
- HP workstations
-
- This really sucks, IMO.
- Now I _know_ that BYTE is on the take.
- I'm getting sick of Jerry Pournelle, too. OS/2 bashing. Won't even
- install HPFS on his OS/2 test computer. Now he is going to announce to
- the people that os/2 is slow. What a bastard.
-
- And they cancelled 'the Unix /bin," too. Good thing I dont have a sub-
- scription, or something else would be cancelled.
-
- -Matt Grice
- -mgrice@athena.MIT.edu
-
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