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"Phillip E. Parker" writes:
 > The call "anything to hinder IBM" seems like the attitude of a barbarian,
 > technophobic machine-breaker. Did you mean that literally, or have I
 > misinterpreted?

Well, the appearance of the IBM PC sure wiped out the small computer
market (Sinclair, Oric, ...) of the early 80ies. Some of those machines
were clearly superior to the IBM PC in a number of ways (eg. the Sinclair
QL, which had more memory, supported pipes and multitasking, used a
68000-family processor) but since everybody had to have IBMs then the
diversity of the market was destroyed.

Whatever gave you the idea that you have to be a technophobic to
distrust/dislike IBM? I certainly will never buy a computer that needs to
have its config.sys file edited everytime I install a new program.

 > (The original call not to cooperate may be misguided, but is at least
 > superficially more civilized.)
 >
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