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- From: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: IBM PC Demise?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:38:00 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) says:
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- >>>Except that the PowerPC is a RISC CPU that will run Unix, System 7 and
- >>>DOS at PC prices. It is marketed by two companies that UNDERSTAND
- >>>marketing. It has huge market hype two years before release?
- >>
- >>understand marketing? Isn't IBM one of the two companies?
- >
- >You mean IBM the biggest computer company in the world? The one that
- >sells more computers annually then anybody except Apple? Their
- >mainframe business may be drying up, and in the we in the non-corporate
- >business world may laugh at them, but studies have shown that IBM and
- >apple are the the *ONLY* computer companies that the average
- >non-computer hacker is familiar with.
- >
- That's right. (BTW- Apple has outsold IBM in PCs for the second year in a
- row)
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