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. Lines: 8 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..