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to: Matthijs Dekker
from: Jack Stein
date: 1999-09-27 19:50:07
subject: IBM going broke?

Matthijs Dekker wrote in a message to Bryan Schwartz:

 BS> So the real question for us OS/2 users is not "will there be a new OS/2 
 BS> client? " but in a few years time, "will there be an IBM?". 

 MD> Of course there will be an IBM. And hopefully there will
 MD> also still be a Microsoft. Would be a shame if IBM had to
 MD> throw away all their nice NT products, wouldn't it? :-)

Obviously, Brian is not an IBM stock holder....

 MD> I hope OS/2 will be around for many years to come.

It will, so will DOS and CP/M and, well you get the flick...  

 MD>  Everything I stated in this message is strictly my own
 MD> peronal view.) 

We wouldn't have it any other way...  Everything I say is my opinion as well,
and frankly, it ain't worth much.  Yours probably ain't worth much more than
mine either, but, what the heck, might as well write something while FIDO is
still breathing...
                                              Jack 
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