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- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:05:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.170550.11690@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec18.003753.14271@news.eng.convex.com>
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- In <1992Dec18.003753.14271@news.eng.convex.com> swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
- .....
- :It is sad indeed that IBM foisted upon the world the sorry piece of
- :machinery now known as a "PC" (remember when any desktop
- :microprocessor-based computer was a "PC"? Now it has to be IBM
- :compatible to be referred to as a "PC".), and then by the sheer mass
- :of their bloated marketing power, bull-dozed it over everything
- :in its path. As a result we are now stuck with its evil legacy.
-
- I've often thought that a class-action suit against IBM and Intel
- for foisting this crap on the world would be interesting :-).
-
- :Finally, IBM's problems stem largely from the *success* of desktop
- :computers, not failure. IBM makes the RS6000, which has been a
- :hugely successful workstation, but it is displacing mainframes in
- :some locations. IBM is replacing million dollar IBM machines with
- :$100,000 IBM machines, and they are losing money as a result. They
- :had a choice between replacing their mainframes with fast IBM
- :workstations or letting some other workstation company replace their
- :mainframes. They were backed into a corner and they did what they
- :could. One thing you might notice about this situation is that it
- :has nothing to do with PCs.
-
- Unfortunately for IBM, the RS6000 and AIX (which must be an
- acronym for Ain't unIX :-) is still plagued with IBM's typical
- proprietary attitudes. There are many non-PC (i.e. Intel)
- workstations available which offer performance similar to the
- RS6000, and also offer real UNIX (at least the Berserkley flavor).
-
- :Your PC-centered interpretation of these events is totally bogus.
- :But if it makes you feel better to believe that stuff while the
- :monster hords of Utter Crap (TM) continue to take over the computing
- :world, and most consumers ignore the arguably superior Mac, then
- :stick your head in the sand and whisper to yourself, "there's no box
- :like a Mac, there's no box like a Mac, there's no box like a Mac,
- :..."
-
- I have one major problem with Apple. I refuse to buy from companies
- that figure to make money through litigation rather than innovation.
- This is also why I don't have any Lotus products on my system.
-
- Bill
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