Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: AT&T Joining OSF
Message-ID: <8329@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 10 Aug 88 23:57:52 GMT
References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <63717@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <63717@sun.uucp> pope@vatican (John Pope) writes:
>>[...] IBM became big by being reliable; they never did anything
>>really new so what they had was most likely going to work.
>Aren't you ignoring things like RISC and Virtual Memory?

Funny, the Burroughs salespeople used to say that IBM's "introduction"
of such features helped Burroughs sales, because finally there was a
market demand for what Burroughs had already been supplying..