Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!oliveb!sun!pope@vatican From: pope@vatican (John Pope) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: AT&T Joining OSF Message-ID: <63717@sun.uucp> Date: 10 Aug 88 16:22:41 GMT References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: pope@vatican (John Pope) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 16 In-reply-to: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) In article <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, madd@bu-cs (Jim Frost) 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? Of course, this was all about 20 years ago, but to say they "never did anything really new" seems pretty off-base... >jim frost >madd@bu-it.bu.edu -- John Pope Sun Microsystems, Inc. pope@sun.COM