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Re: PC - Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??




On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, John Hasler wrote:

> Alvin writes:
> > IBM made is "official" that its okay to use in an office environment to
> > replace the selectric typewriter
> 
> Nope.  That was Wang et al. with their word processors.

yes.. wang was out there too, along with olivetti and few other
typewriter company ...

people liked it and watched for IBM's upcoming PC announcement...
which was the point of crowning the "hobbyist PC" into the world of
office workers ... even though wang and dozen others had word processors
already out there

along with gazillion other apps from other vendors too
that preceededibm/wang/olivetti/brother/...

c ya
alvin




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