AT&T Joining OSF

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.ARPA
Thu Aug 11 09:57:52 AEST 1988


In article <63717 at sun.uucp> pope at vatican (John Pope) writes:
>>[...] IBM became big by being reliable; they never did anything
>>really new so what they had was most likely going to work.
>Aren't you ignoring things like RISC and Virtual Memory?

Funny, the Burroughs salespeople used to say that IBM's "introduction"
of such features helped Burroughs sales, because finally there was a
market demand for what Burroughs had already been supplying..



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