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- From: runehy@dhhalden.no (RUNE HYLDMO)
- Subject: Re: FALCON is DEAD.... NOT, IBM is...
- Message-ID: <runehy.37.728039314@dhhalden.no>
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- References: <9301204372@ritz.mordor.com> <1993Jan21.154134.14631@sae.com> <1993Jan22.115450.24837@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:08:34 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan22.115450.24837@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
- >From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- >Subject: Re: FALCON is DEAD!
- >Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:54:50 GMT
- >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
-
- Here in Norway it took a company called Datavarehuset 6 months to from they
- launched their IBM-clone until they outsold IBM. Which they also are doing
- today. Party on....
-
- Greets
-
- Rune Hyldmo
-