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- From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- Subject: Re: FALCON is DEAD!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.115450.24837@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <9301204372@ritz.mordor.com> <1993Jan21.154134.14631@sae.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:54:50 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.154134.14631@sae.com> malay@sae.com writes:
- >In article 9301204372@ritz.mordor.com, ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
- >>AL RASHID SHAHIR (alrashi@ecf.toronto.edu) wrote:
- >>
- >>OS/2> Oh yes, you say the future is in IBM? Fat chance from a
- >>OS/2> company just about to fold!!!
- >>
- >>Bahahahahaha! IBM is the largest computer manufacturer in the
- >>world. It is so entertaining hearing a user of Atari products
- >>predicting the "fold"ing of IBM. I think I'm going to have to put
- >>that one in my .sig.
- >>
- >>Chris
- >
- >Just to clear something up - IBM does NOT sell the most computers in the
- >world - in fact, IBM is lucky to be number 3 - Apple outsold everybody in
- >1992. If you add IBM machines + clones then total machines sold will be
- >more than everybody else sells - but the clone manufacturers are going to
- >be the death of IBM as a PC manufacturer - why do you think they need to
- >layoff so many people - why did they record nasty losses for 1992???
- ^^^^^
- You call $7.2 billion "nasty"? That has got to be the understatement of
- the year. Here in the UK we are worrying about 3 1/2 entire countries being
- .038 billion pounds short a year!
- Well OK, I am using the strict definition of a billion for the UK budget
- deficit and an American billion for IBM, but still $7 200 000 000.00 is the
- biggest corporate loss in the history of the known universe.
-
- - Leo
-