16 Mar
1998
16 Mar
'98
4:44 p.m.
IBM bashing before PCs? As an old Univac/CDC type I
can swear
(with fingers crossed behind back) we never said a single bad
word about OS/360 or the blazing speed of a 360/20, and we
always envied the S/3ers their MFCU and the cute little 96 col.
cards.
Oh, CDC...Computer Dinosaur Corporation...
Sorry.
I still want a Cyber, however (any other 180s being decommissioned
lately?).
Seriously, IBM was _THE_ bad guy in the computer world for many years
prior to the PC. It took both the greater dislike of Microsoft and the
release of the RS/6000 to turn the heads of many hackers.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net