Re: Requiem for OpenDoc

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From: Erik Funkenbusch
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <333008b1.0@news.essex1.com>, bgqhr!drrdw0.bnl (Chris J. Alumbaugh) wrote:
>What a lame, ignorant post, from someone who defends a certain other
>software company whose dismal record on ship dates is overshadowed only by
>horror stories of ~43 yr old "lost" letters from the postal service.  IBM
>has "delievered" quite a bit of the technologies that are the computer you
>are running, and let's see,, Microsoft made a mouse and BOB and a some
>other stuff that  I have even a lower opinion of.  Yeah, I guess Microsoft
>delievered on Windows 95 and active X and IE,, but I got to say, I'll take
>"dead" IBM technology ANY day over what MS dellievered. Can you say
>CAIRO=1994??  Wouldn't happen to have a harddrive with PMRL technology
>would you?

Excuse me?  NT 3.1 didn't even come out until 1993, Cairo wasn't even planned 
until 1994.  How the hell could it have been late before it was even 
announced?

Fact is, the vast majority of MS products are delivered ON TIME or *EARLY*.

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From: chucks@isd.net (Erik Funkenbusch)
Subject: Re: Requiem for OpenDoc
Date: 1997/03/19
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