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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Mr. Peanut
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 02:21
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Patrick O'Neil <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu> writes:

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>And such people would be correct.  Just this very evening on the Nightly 
>News there was a story about Apple and their troubles which makes them a 
>potential prime target for a takeover if they cannot pull out.  They 
>aren't sunk yet, by any means, but they ARE taking on water and they need 
>to bail quickly and patch the holes or Apple will be IBM or Hewlett 
>Packard or somesuch.

>poneil@genetics.utah.edu


  Not going to happen. According to an article in the local newspaper, which
referenced the Wall Street Journal, Sun Microsystems will not be buying Apple,
nor will IBM. Apparently, price was the issue. And Hewlett Packard wasn't 
even interested. 
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