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In article 9301204372@ritz.mordor.com, ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
>AL RASHID SHAHIR (alrashi@ecf.toronto.edu) wrote:
>
>OS/2> Oh yes, you say the future is in IBM? Fat chance from a 
>OS/2> company just about to fold!!!
>
>Bahahahahaha!  IBM is the largest computer manufacturer in the
>world.  It is so entertaining hearing a user of Atari products
>predicting the "fold"ing of IBM.  I think I'm going to have to put
>that one in my .sig.
>
>Chris

Just to clear something up - IBM does NOT sell the most computers in the
world - in fact, IBM is lucky to be number 3 - Apple outsold everybody in
1992. If you add IBM machines + clones then total machines sold will be
more than everybody else sells - but the clone manufacturers are going to
be the death of IBM as a PC manufacturer - why do you think they need to
layoff so many people - why did they record nasty losses for 1992???

Apple will sell its 11 millionth machine sometime this month - thats a HUGE
user base!

IBM (as we used to know it - Big Blue) will not exist - expect them to
discontinue manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of their own machines.
IBM's future is unclear - but the PC won't be in it - count on that! And
you can blame the hundreds of cloners and Microsoft!

Bob Malay