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- From: fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Refreshing Interview with Petro T.
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 21:35:33 GMT
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- Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv@xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : In article <4l6go7$ncl@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath) writes:
- : > : JTV> But let there be no doubt that IBM knows what is going on with the
- : > : JTV> Amiga, and is considering involvement.
- : > Hmm, they already licensed MacOS so I'd be surprised to see them support
- : > yet another OS (And I'm not sure if I'd want IBM to get involved).
- : Don't you mean Motorola? They are said to have closed some new kind of
- : license deal with Apple, but not IBM (as far as I remember).
- Motorola has a deal with Apple which allows Motorola to even sell MacOS to
- third parties (I wonder what they paid).
- IBM's deal with Apple is more "You use my OS and I use your OS":
- Apple is selling AIX for really big Mac Server Systems (who want's MacOS on
- a server?) and IBM (with OS/2 PPC on ice until, at least, 97) has discovered
- a hole in its PPC workstation market which it intends to fill with MacOS.
-
- : Anyway, what is wrong with IBM? They're a competent outfit nowadays and they're
- : rising like tax rates (or whatever it is that you compare things to that rise
- : very fast). They are also, I think, not to blame for the domination of "IBM"
- : PC's although they are slightly to blame for its crappiness.
- IBM was a monopolist once and I don't want them to get anywhere close to this
- again. On the other hand I even bought OS/2 2.0 - 2.11 to give them my "vote"
- for OS/2 and against ******* **.
- Can't tell what's wrong with them but "crappiness" is a good word for most of
- the software I've seen from IBM. On the other hand IBM's "employee written
- software" is quite good: Somebody must be preventing them from doing such
- things at work ...
-
- : #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
- : Windows 95 is like a piano player: Pressing a key while it's busy can upset it
- I would read your postings just for the fortunes at the end :-)
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