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- From: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan)
- Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.230812.8592@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <714913121.20822@minster.york.ac.uk> <1992Aug28.180020.17109@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:08:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.180020.17109@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
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- > OK, please don't interpret this as a bash on IBM, as Microsoft
- >corporate policy, or as anything more than a gut reaction to reading
- >this text.
- >
- > This really gives me the willies. Is IBM only going to support
- >OS/2 on IBM hardware? And, if so, what would be the implications if
- >OS/2 were to dominate the PC operating system market?
- >
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- This is a silly post. Everyone knows that IBM supports OS/2 on all
- PC-compatible hardware and offers a money-back guarantee if they can't
- get it to work on your hardware. Will Microsoft give me my money back
- if I can't get Windows 3.1 or NT to work on my hardware? Microsoftians
- should check up on their facts before posting...
-
- --Tony
- quan@cs.stanford.edu
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