Re: Tipton's COMMON opening speech / NY Times article -- MIDRANGE-L

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Jerome Draper wrote:

> Case in point is the front page of the biz section of the NY Times today
> which shows a graph of the "history of IBM".  Just like Tipton sez, there's
> no mention of AS/400 although the vaunted S3 got a mention.  It's all
> mainframe, PC, and Unix (AIX and Linux).

At first, seeing 'vaunted' as an adjective for the S3 gave me a
chuckle.  Then it dawned on me that at the time, the S3 was really
something special.

-- 
-Jeff
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