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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re:IBM did it first
Message-ID: <2318@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 16:42:12 GMT
References:  <5003@cup.portal.com> <23849@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <3080@pdn.UUCP> <2295@polyslo.UUCP> <52434@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <52434@sun.uucp> shiffman@sun.UUCP (Hank Shiffman) writes:
>To quote Cool Hand Luke, "what we have here is a failure to
>communicate".  David, I fear you've misinterpreted Alan's remarks.  He
>never claimed that the IBM PC was state of the art.  He said that the
>state of the art would have advanced far more were it not for the PC.

  It's not a fear, you are 100% right.  I'm sorry.  I went back a read
the article once again, and you're right.  Given the new information at
my disposal, I agree with what the original article said.  The IBM PC
did succeed in stopping time in the micro computer industry, thank god
we seem to have started back up again.  Things aren't perfect, but at
least people are back to not being satisfied with what we have.  I just love
it when people don't like what they have and force the industry to
develop better software/hardware.

  Thankyou for setting me straight Hank!  I agree 100% with the rest of
your message.

David M. O'Rourke

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