🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Article #312

Re: AIX Peculiarities

#312
From: Jon Doran/60000
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1989 02:01
25 lines
1222 bytes
In article <16655@ut-emx.UUCP>, nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:

> Also, there is a lot to be said about the bottom line--the RT
                                                         ^^^^^^
> has simply not sold as well as workstations produced by other
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> vendors. It should not be to hard to determine why. The RT
  ^^^^^^^^

OK, so IBM is not winning any popularity contests.  And I agree
that there is plenty of room for improvement...  But IBM is
ranked 4th in workstation sales.  I'm not sure if this is by
unit or by sales.
	1.  HP	(includes Apollo Div)
	2.  Sun
	3.  ???
	4.  IBM

	?   SGI
	?   DEC

It rather surprised me, but says something.

Jon Doran
IBM AWD, Austin TX
Technical Details
Message-ID: <2534@shaffer.UUCP>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!shaffer!jon
References: <13000@well.UUCP> <4267@portia.Stanford.EDU> <16655@ut-emx.UUCP>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!shaffer!jon
From: jon@shaffer.UUCP (Jon Doran/60000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: AIX Peculiarities
Summary: IBM is #4 last I heard
Message-ID: <2534@shaffer.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 02:01:59 GMT
References: <13000@well.UUCP> <4267@portia.Stanford.EDU> <16655@ut-emx.UUCP>
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX
Lines: 25