CompuServe Messages

The CBM Unix didn't sell because of the CBM name. CBM has done nothing to change its game machine image. If it had marketted under a different name (a la NewTek's Toaster System) and actually advertised, they could have sold. Case in point: I proposed a unix based system to my company that was putting together tech-center learning lab that was to be multi-user, networked wit X-windows focus. I didn't name the machine. Specs and bucks were right. COmpany very interested until they found it was a CBM based system. They laughed, then accepted a 486 server with 386 diskless worksations that is a dog. Its the only way they could compete with CBM price I quoted but the system is BAAAAD. But it aint a CBM and in there mind that is the big selling point. wmc