[Am-info] Dishonesty in ads] - OT

[Mike Stephen]

Well I won't fall into your name calling fits...  If you wish to drop your
discusions please do.  I do not have time to read your accusations and
respond in kind.  Unlike you I do not think you are an idiot, or anything
like that.  I just think you might be blinded by your own bias.  If AT&T did
not buy IBM's global network, please tell me who did?  And when AT&T bought
IBM's global network please tell me that they swapped all the OS/2 servers
out for .... What?  Did they replace all the OS/2 servers with.... NT?  (NT
was not able to run the systems at that time).  Because you were not
involved with AT&T and OS/2 at the time, I find it amusing that you can
speak for the many thousands of AT&T employees.  But then I did not work for
IBM in 1987 when OS/2 was born.  I did the beta testing for Microsoft OS/2
back then. In 1992 I joined IBM to teach employees the use of OS/2 1.2, then
1.3, then 2.0.  In 1994 I left IBM.

Some of the students attending my training courses (taught with three others
in Western Canada) were you guessed it... employees of AT&T.  But none of
them was you.....  I think I would have remembered.



Oh well..  I will learn not to take heed of any of your postings.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey" <esoteric@3times25.net>
To: "Mike Stephen" <mikestp@telus.net>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Am-info] Dishonesty in ads] - OT


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> Mike Stephen wrote:
> > There is another point you might not be aware of.  Years ago IBM started
> > division of the company in 1993 that supported dialup accounts world
wide
> > called IBM Global network.  It involved many servers all over the globe.
> > These included much use of OS/2 as well as RS6000 machines to host both
the
> > netbios network (locally) as well as the TCPIP network (globally).  The
IBM
> > Global network was bought by ...... yup you guessed it... AT&T.  They
> > renamed it the AT&T Global network.  As I understood they kept all the
> > equipment as is....  They might have replaced them by now, but the AT&T
> > network was run with extensive use of OS/2 and RS6000 machines.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Geoffrey" <esoteric@3times25.net>
> > To: "mike stephen" <mikestp@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: <Am-info@lists.essential.org>
> > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Am-info] Dishonesty in ads] - OT
> >
> >
> >
> >>mike stephen wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>huh?  What inacuracy were you hinting at?
> >>>
> >>At one time you were listing companies that used OS/2 extensively.  You
> >>listed AT&T as one of these companies.  That is complete false, I called
> >>you on it, you've never presented data to back this claim.
> >>
> >>THAT inaccuracy.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Until later: Geoffrey esoteric@3times25.net
> >>
> >>I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> >>to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> >>
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> Until later: Geoffrey esoteric@3times25.net
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> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
>