From:	Allen Versfeld <aversfel@****.CS.UNP.AC.ZA>
Subject:	present day corporations (was: WIN95)
Date:	Tue, 29 Aug 1995 08:59:28 +0200

On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, James Pearley Kilbride wrote:

>
> YESS you go boy.. I personally would be more proud of owning a mac than an
> ibm compatible system. but we won't get into the reasons why this is
> shadowrun.. question for you'all out dere. are Microsoft, Ibm, Intel,
> Motorola or apple still around in the world of shadowrun??
>
That depends - which of those will survive both the crash of '29 (IDHTBIFOM,
so no flames for the wrong date) and the transition to a completely new
tech, like optical computers?

I'm sure that MS would still be there, 'cos they have the resources,
probably most of those companies will make it. The real question is, will
they survive unscathed?
I don't think so. Otherwise, our deckers would be arguing about which is
better - the new P-29, or the Powerdeck. And we would all be on the
MSmatrix! Meanwhile, Fuchi would be the choice of those weird unix
hackers ;-)

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