gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin) (10/25/83)
Well, the word is out, I guess we can't hide it anymore. The true details are as follows: 1) intel produced 2 million 80188s before trying any of them. 2) IBM produced over 400,000 peanuts before powering one up. They powered one up the day before dealer shipments were to commence and discovered that none of them worked. 3) IBM has, indeed, taken over Microsoft. The mahogany row cadre has been taken out and shot; department and development group leads have had their left hands chopped off. The rest of the programmers are in chains... but they might get off in 20 years for good behavior. We had hoped to keep this a secret (my artificial hand is really nice... if I keep it out of strong light) but I can see that the word sneaked out. Maybe it was the sound of the automatic weapons fire when the IBM swat team hit the ground... Gordon Letwin Recently of Microsoft, now residing in a nameless IBM dungeon...