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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
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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
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John Pope
	Sun Microsystems, Inc. 
		pope@sun.COM