From: marv@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Marv Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: IBM Develops PC Product in 14 weeks
Date: 19 Nov 92 23:05:01 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>[The following is from USA TODAY, 11/17/92]
>
>
>   If you think IBM won't be venturing into personal communications, think 
>again.
>
>   [At Comdex] IBM showed a prototype device that features an on-screen keypad
>and runs on MS-DOS.  Weighing just 16 ounces, the PS/2 personal communicator
>is run by a secret IBM chip that has the power of the first PCs IBM made in
>the early 1980s.  [I know that isn't saying much. - MB]  But it also functions
>as a cellular phone, fax machine, and PC.  It can't run Lotus 1-2-3 yet, but
>it can send and receive files via a cellular radio link.
>
>   What's even more remarkable, considering all the flak that IBM has taken
>lately over its slow response to new technology, is that Big Blue developed 
>the unit in just 14 weeks at its Boca Raton, Fla., facility.
>
>                                           - USA TODAY, 11/17/92
>
>
>[End of quoted article]
>-------
>
>   Commodore can't even develop a screen blanker in 14 weeks!  Now that IBM
>has improved their ability to respond to technological changes in the computer
>industry, Commodore has now become by far the slowest company in the computer
>industry in this respect.  IBM has reduced their response time to industry
>announcements to hours in some cases.  When Compaq announced cuts in the list
>prices of their systems, for instance, IBM responded by reducing the list
>prices of their PS/ValuePoint systems within the same hour.  
>
>   By comparison, Commodore's response time can almost be measured in decades.
>Commodore responded to Apple's announcement of the Mac II by shipping a system
>with almost exactly the same capbilities five years later.  And Commodore
>responded to the standardization of high-density floppy drives in the computer
>industry by finally adopting them on Amiga systems over four years after IBM,
>Apple, and every other company in the industry made HD floppies standard on
>nearly all systems.  Commodore still has not developed any CD-ROM drives for
>their A2000, A3000, and A4000 systems, and still has not developed any 
>notebook Amigas to penetrate the exploding notebook PC market.  Commodore can
>probably be expected to ship these products on the fourth or fifth anniversary
>of the availability of these products by other companies.
>
>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>--------------------------------------------------

Do you have ANY idea what your talking about? IBM is MAGNITUDES bigger in
terms of revenue than CBM.  IBM has been dictating industry direction for the
most part of the last 30 years! 
 
Every time company xzy comes out with product abc you go on a CBM bashing
rampage.  Get a life Marc.  Get your stinking degree and see what the REAL
world is all about.
 
Do you think CBM has a bottomless pit of cash? Should they try to address
EVERY stinking area of PC production? Hit EVERY market? ... You seem to think
so.  You're wrong.  But you have been wrong so many times that we all expect
it.  If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen......


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