Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:31:10 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: IBM marketing (was: Protected mode instructions which reduce to noop.) Message-ID: <19980427103110.48503@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzpwwcf4nib=2Efsf=40hrotti=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav__on_Fri=2C_Apr_24=2C_1998_a?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?t_10=3A44=3A42AM_%2B0200?= References: <199804240622.XAA07872@usr09.primenet.com> <xzpwwcf4nib.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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On Fri, 24 April 1998 at 10:44:42 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes: >> nearly equalled unemulated hardware. IBM is technically competent in >> most regards (brilliant in some, which is surprising; management tends to >> fear brilliant things). > > Hear hear. They don't, however, have *any* sense of marketing. I can't comment on IBM in the US nowadays, but 15 years ago they were considered the best marketing machine in the world. I agreed. > (Somebody once told me that when they saw OS/2 Warp ads on TV, they > felt an inexplicable urge to drink Sprite) In the US or in Norway? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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