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Article #3164Re: Killer Micros
From: Paul Richardson
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 23:57
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 23:57
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In article <1989Nov27.171937.9661@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>> It has always been a truism that nobody ever got fired for buying
>>IBM. It's probably true today that nobody ever gets fired for buying DEC.
>>To most people in corporate America, making any kind of decision (from
>>which million dollar mainframe to buy to which brand of toilet paper should
>>go in the executive john) means taking the path which is least likely to
>>get you fired.
>>--
>>Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
>
>I assume everyone realizes that phrase is not a bit of quaint advice
>but a salesperson's threat to a customer wandering from the fold?
>
>I didn't think so. But it's rather disgusting, up there with Tex
>Antoine's infamous "lay back and enjoy it" advice to rape victims.
>--
> -Barry Shein
>
Yeah, and the Emperor is wearing new clothes too !
/pgr
--
/pgr
I don't want to work,I just want to bang on the drums all day - T Rundgren
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!mips!paulr From: paulr@mips.COM (Paul Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Killer Micros Message-ID: <32267@tau.mips.COM> Date: 27 Nov 89 23:57:48 GMT References: <3257@husc6.harvard.edu> <46500089@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1989Nov26.142026.26642@phri.nyu.edu> <1989Nov27.171937.9661@world.std.com> Reply-To: paulr@mips.COM (Paul Richardson) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 28