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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Computerworld 2/6/84
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> One more quote, from Kenneth Lim, a research analyst with Dataquest, Inc:

> 	"Unix has no importance in the micro market", primarily because
> 	the powerful and sophisticated system has yet to prove itself
> 	in the business environment.

> Gee, somebody better tell Sun and Masscomp and Pyramid and Callan and Pixel
> and everybody else in the *nix business about this right away!

Well, to be fair, by "business environment" he probably means the great
unwashed masses of COBOL jockeys, or the people who build the computers
whose terminals sit at hotel reservation desks, etc..  On the other hand,
I don't know how well CP/M or MS-DOS has proved itself in that business
environment, either.

	Guy Harris
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