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  1. Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:43749 comp.os.os2.advocacy:12673 alt.startrek.creative:3116
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!shabby
  3. From: shabby@Athena.MIT.edu (Chris Shabsin)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.startrek.creative
  5. Subject: IBM and Borg analogy
  6. Date: 23 Jan 1993 15:50:01 GMT
  7. Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  8. Lines: 19
  9. Distribution: comp
  10. Message-ID: <SHABBY.93Jan23104941@deathtongue.mit.edu>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: deathtongue.mit.edu
  12.  
  13.  
  14. We are IBM.
  15. Downsizing is irrelevant.
  16. Client-server is irrelevant.
  17. You will be assimilated.
  18. Mainframes will preva*KABOOM*.
  19.  
  20. I am Hugh.  I am now IBM.
  21. Meet OS/2.  
  22.  
  23. :-) I thought this up just now when someone gave the standard
  24. Microsoft analogy...  (We are Microsoft, OS/2 is irrelevant, Unix is
  25. irrelevant, [chorus]...)
  26. --
  27. -Chris Shabsin
  28. -shabby@athena.mit.edu
  29. -member, SIPB, PWLCSBHNM, MITMB, VWA, MITCC, PWN, LSI, DBFC
  30. - "What lane do you think you're in anyway?"    - a friend of mine
  31.   "*MY LANE*"                    - me
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