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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
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Subject: IBM marketing (was: Protected mode instructions which reduce to noop.)
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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

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