Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 19:15:51 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IBM marketing (was: Protected mode instructions which reduce to noop.) Message-ID: <199804280015.TAA11332@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:31:10 %2B0800." <19980427103110.48503@papillon.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey writes: > 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. I saw a really good quote today. Appears I'll have to look it up because I can't remember it and the wording really makes it worthwhile. But the gist of it stated "the worst error of modern times is that success is equated with excellence." Suggesting the successful are not necessarily excellent. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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