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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.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!ari.ari.net!news-admin From: kiyoinc@kiyoinc.com 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: 2 Jun 1996 01:36:48 GMT Organization: ARInternet, Corp. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4oqr7g$ksr@ari.ari.net> References: <4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <4muhf9$giv@phobos.Candle.Com> <4npu4t$c7j@access1.digex.net> <4o0a60$9ff@kf8nh.apk.net> <petrichDs5Fv9.5Cr@netcom.com> <4ohcuv$772@ari.ari.net> <4op27j$igq@newnews.iafrica.com> Reply-To: kiyoinc@kiyoinc.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kiyoinc.ari.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.03 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22839 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:108499 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:144437 comp.os.os2.advocacy:206705 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:110772 comp.os.linux.advocacy:50739 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20500 In <4op27j$igq@newnews.iafrica.com>, cquirke@iafrica.com (Chris Quirke) writes: >kiyoinc@kiyoinc.com wrote: >>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... > You got me there. There is a bad IBM, the IBM with lots and lots of vice presidents, jet planes, executive dining rooms, cost accountants that don't know what money is but can jimmy around the numbers to the point that no one knows what's going on. That's the IBM that three guys in an office park out manouver every day in every town. You see them everywhere, with their Taiwan chassis, Sony CD-Roms, Toshiba memory, tweaking their generic hardware. And the software guys, we're about to enter a new age of software. You build your own app and go head to head with the largest software development houses in the world. All you need is a killer concept, carve out your own niche, crank up the compiler and go at it. Yeah, I'll do it. Hey, wait a minute, aren't we supposed to be a software store? Cory Hamasaki http://www.kiyoinc.com Kiyo Design, Inc. OS/2 Newsletter & OS/2 Web Store 11 Annapolis St. (410) 280-1942 Annapolis, Md 21401 Tues-Sat 11-5, Sun 12-4