Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.unix Subject: Re: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM Message-ID: <374@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 10:10:50 EST Article-I.D.: graffiti.374 Posted: Thu Oct 31 10:10:50 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:48:15 EST References: <3208@nsc.UUCP> <1196@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.micro.pc:5762 net.unix:6119 > Apple is hell-bent to cripple the computer industry. Which they've been > doing for a long time anyway (the only good thing about the IBM PC is > that IBM's name was enough to force it past the heavy-handedness of Apple > to prospective computer buyers that there are better computers than the Apple > ][). Give me a break, man. Apple *never* had a majority share of the market like IBM does today, in fact like IBM has had for decades. You greatly over-rate their power. If you want to point fingers at people crippling the computer industry, look to IBM. The PC is barely a step above the old CP/M machines that were the business computers of what you imply was the "Apple Era". For all its failings the Mac is a step above that. Apple may currently be run by *******s, but IBM is run by powerful *******s. -- Name: Peter da Silva Graphic: `-_-' UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter