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- From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.190833.10075@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:08:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.160725.8470@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1992Dec19.012947.13106@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec22.153630.6259@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.153630.6259@athena.mit.edu> mgrice@athena.mit.edu (Matthew Grice) writes:
- >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.
- >
- Let me just add that every single time I read his column I get sick.
- He really knows nothing about computers (REALLY) but dabbles left and
- right. He has more problems with things than anyone else I know.
- It's an annoying column, if you ask me. It's also anoying that he
- gets all this GREAT equipment and doesn't put it to more use than
- word-processing.
-
- >
- >And they cancelled 'the Unix /bin," too. Good thing I dont have a sub-
- >scription, or something else would be cancelled.
-
- Next month is my LAST.
-
- Jeff
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