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- From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
- Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.155324.1125@island.COM>
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- References: <thomasd.59.726252693@tps.COM> <1993Jan6.161516.2237@island.COM> <1ijdl0INNo0n@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:53:24 GMT
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- In article <1ijdl0INNo0n@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown) writes:
- >
- >fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >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.
-
- I hope you're not referring to the SonyNews. My first programming job in Japan
- was on that machine. It was "creative" to say the least.
-
- >Coke. yay. Ditto for the other examples.
-
- You mean Dow-Corning, who recently expanded their Japanese operation to keep up
- with the demand for glass for the portable computers? Boeing, who supplies
- JAL, ANA, etc? Hughes, who makes most of the Japanese satellites? MicroSoft,
- who makes the DOS for NEC-PCs?
-
- Mike
- >
- >--
- > --------------------------------------------------
- >"How do I love sea? Let me count the waves.." |philb@cats.ucsc.edu
- >P.Anthony, "The Colo(u)r of her panties" |philb@soda.berkeley.edu
-
-
- --
- Disclaimer - These opinions are not so much opinions, as pearls of wisdom. Any-
- one disagreeing is obviously either a) a snivelling, whining, mentally-
- deficient, weak-willed, inconsequential, namby-pamby tool of some vague but
- conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
-