From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:08:33 GMT
Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science

In article <1992Dec22.153630.6259@athena.mit.edu> mgrice@athena.mit.edu (Matthew Grice) writes:
>In article <1992Dec19.012947.13106@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
>>As for all this IBM stock stuff, I think it's pretty obvious that anybody
>>who is selling IBM stock right now (and there is a lot of it) is about 
>>as stupid as you can be.  
>>
>>If I had -any- money, I'd be buying IBM stock YESTERDAY!  Come on, a 
>>blue chip like big blue at it's lowest point in a decade?  And people
>>are -selling-?  Do these people think IBM is going to go bankrupt or
>>something???
>
>These IBM-bashers are _absolutely_ ridiculous.  If I had any money
>(saving it all for MIT :)) I'd be buying IBM left and right, too.
>GM may be losing money, but IBM is nowhere _near_ in the kind of 
>trouble that American car makers are.  People seem to have forgotten
>that, unlike the American car makers, imo, IBM will always be here,
>making money, and dominating.
>
>Yesterday, in the Wall Street Journal, I saw the biggest piece of anti-
>IBM, pro Microsoft-Intel propaganda bullshit you ever saw.  To my
>surprize, Microsoft-Intel were suddenly taking over Big Blue.
>(at least, that is the impression it gave)  Suddenly, Windows NT
>was taking over the world, and OS/2 was not even mentioned.  Well, I
>guess it was mentioned once.  In a pie chart with 1% of the share.
>None of the problems with NT were mentioned, except at the end, where noone
>reads to anyway.
>
>Speaking of anti IBM-OS/2 propaganda, anyone see the latest Byte?
>Look at this rundown.
>
>Got a prize                                 Didnt (conspicuous in abscence)
>_______________________________________________________________________
>Windoze 3.1                                 OS/2 2.0
>Compaq Prolinea                             PS/valuepoint
>Tons 'o Windoze programs                    Not a lot of other programs
>                                            HP's cheapline
>                                            Solaris 2.1
>                                            SPARClassic
>                                            HP workstations
>
>This really sucks, IMO.
>Now I _know_ that BYTE is on the take.
>I'm getting sick of Jerry Pournelle, too.  OS/2 bashing.  Won't even 
>install HPFS on his OS/2 test computer.  Now he is going to announce to
>the people that os/2 is slow.  What a bastard.
>
Let me just add that every single time I read his column I get sick.
He really knows nothing about computers (REALLY) but dabbles left and
right.  He has more problems with things than anyone else I know.
It's an annoying column, if you ask me.  It's also anoying that he
gets all this GREAT equipment and doesn't put it to more use than
word-processing.

>
>And they cancelled 'the Unix /bin," too.  Good thing I dont have a sub-
>scription, or something else would be cancelled.

Next month is my LAST.

Jeff

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