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- From: philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown)
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- Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 08:22:56 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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- References: <1993Jan01.103831.6531@deeptht.armory.com> <1993Jan4.201248.4828@island.COM> <thomasd.59.726252693@tps.COM> <1993Jan6.161516.2237@island.COM>
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- fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
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- >In article <thomasd.59.726252693@tps.COM> thomasd@tps.COM (Thomas W. Day) writes:
- >>I really don't think using Harley as evidence that U.S. companies are
- >>capable of competing is valid.
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- >Well, then you could have responded to the earlier Pampers, MacDonalds, Toys-
- >R-Us, Coca-Cola, Dow-Corning, etc, examples. Then there's Sun, Microsoft,
- >Apple-MacIntosh, Boeing, Hughes (they make satellites, Mr Day), and all those
- >other "low tech" things that the Japanese buy just because they pity us.
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- ha! Sony now makes Sun clones that are 100% Sun compatible, possibly
- faster, and cheaper, than the original. Microsoft sucks, and Apple's
- stuff is mostly made in japan anyways.
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- Coke. yay. Ditto for the other examples.
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