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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!psgrain!quagga.ru.ac.za!und.ac.za!iafrica.com!usenet From: cquirke@iafrica.com (Chris Quirke) Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no M$ AppleScript or Rexx imitations? Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 08:38:22 GMT Organization: Internet Africa Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4op27j$igq@newnews.iafrica.com> References: <4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <4muhf9$giv@phobos.Candle.Com> <4npu4t$c7j@access1.digex.net> <4o0a60$9ff@kf8nh.apk.net> <petrichDs5Fv9.5Cr@netcom.com> <4ohcuv$772@ari.ari.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 196-7-171-85.iafrica.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22803 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:108418 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:144139 comp.os.os2.advocacy:206529 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:110591 comp.os.linux.advocacy:50679 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20460 kiyoinc@kiyoinc.com wrote: >In <petrichDs5Fv9.5Cr@netcom.com>, petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich) writes: >When Microsoft builds hardware what do you get? A mouse and keyboard! >When IBM builds hardware what do you get? Robot tape libraries that >hold Terabytes of data, fibre optic data connections that run at >hundreds of mega bytes per second, un-interruptable, remotely >maintainable, parallel, redundant, mirrored, archived, restorable, >failsafe. Hardware that runs for decades. CPU's that can be maintained >and upgraded while the operating system is running production work. Can almost forgive them CGA, under-clocked processors, MCA, PS/1 with DOS 4 in ROM, recent "why buy a clone?" PC-300 systems without L2 cache, and all those artificial incompatabilities introduced to differentiate the market and so allow huge markups where no competition exists... | A sign that appeared in "The Simpsons": | Springfield Pet Shop - All our pets are flushable.