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From: jbrock@panix.com (John Brock)
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Subject: Re: Why no M$ AppleScript or Rexx imitations?
Date: 2 Jun 1996 14:28:51 -0400
Organization: Panix
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In article <4op27j$igq@newnews.iafrica.com>,
Chris Quirke <cquirke@iafrica.com> wrote:

>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...

Just for the record, I bought my IBM PC 300 a year ago, and it has a
256KB L2 cache.  It was an option though, and I had to pay extra for
it, but if I hadn't bought it then I could have upgraded later.  And,
also for the record, I *like* my IBM PC 300!  :-)
-- 
John Brock
jbrock@panix.com