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In article <1ijdl0INNo0n@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown) writes:
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>fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
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>>In article <thomasd.59.726252693@tps.COM> thomasd@tps.COM (Thomas W. Day) writes:
>>>I really don't think using Harley as evidence that U.S. companies are 
>>>capable of competing is valid.  
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>>Well, then you could have responded to the earlier Pampers, MacDonalds, Toys-
>>R-Us, Coca-Cola, Dow-Corning, etc, examples. Then there's Sun, Microsoft,
>>Apple-MacIntosh, Boeing, Hughes (they make satellites, Mr Day), and all those
>>other "low tech" things that the Japanese buy just because they pity us.
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>ha! Sony now makes Sun clones that are 100% Sun compatible, possibly
>faster, and cheaper, than the original. Microsoft sucks, and Apple's
>stuff is mostly made in japan anyways.

I hope you're not referring to the SonyNews. My first programming job in Japan
was on that machine. It was "creative" to say the least. 

>Coke. yay. Ditto for the other examples.

You mean Dow-Corning, who recently expanded their Japanese operation to keep up
with the demand for glass for the portable computers? Boeing, who supplies
JAL, ANA, etc? Hughes, who makes most of the Japanese satellites? MicroSoft,
who makes the DOS for NEC-PCs? 

Mike
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