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- From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 18:45:01 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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- References: <1992Dec18.163758.18923@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec18.163758.18923@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- meyers@lorenz.ocean.fsu.edu (Steve Meyers) writes:
- >
- > Wouldn't it be sardonic if in a few years the only companies
- selling
- > DOS and OS/2 machines were Compaq and Dell? Perhaps we will no
- longer be
- > able use the phrase "IBM clone" if there is no IBM as it exists
- today.
- > What shall we say? IBM "legacies"?
-
-
- The term "IBM clone" is becoming less and less common anyway.
- Most people simply talk of PCs, or 486 machines. Occasionally,
- you'll here someone referring to a clone, but without the IBM
- adjective.
-
- By the way, it won't just be Compaq and Dell. It'll also be
- Gateway, and probably Northgate, Zeos, Hyndai, Swan, and few others.
-
- --
- Jim Mann
- Stratus Computer jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
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