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Subject:Re[2]: Recognition at last! From:Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM Date:Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:46:00 -0600
For those that remember (Arlen?) Word 3.0 on the Mac was at least as
buggy as Word 6.0.
But four times as fast! ;{>}
# under their personal constraints), but I remind myself, "somehow they
# have become a giant".
They got there by following the grand old American tradition of refusing to
innovate. "You can always tell the pioneers by the arrows sticking in them."
By consistently coming into a market after someone else established it, they
avoid the overhead of creating a market, and instead harvest crops which
someone else has planted and cultivated. (There, did I torture that metaphor
enough for you?)
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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In God we trust; all others must provide data.
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Opinions expressed are mine and mine alone.
If JCI had an opinion on this, they'd hire someone else to deliver it.
