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To: Mark Finger who wrote (10137)	4/1/1998 12:54:00 PM
From: Lee L.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14631

The IFMX web site has what I presume is a preview to the new ad on 'the billboard'. Looks nice.... informix.com

To: Mark Finger who wrote (10137)	4/2/1998 6:17:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 14631

>>>The problem with Cromenco (according to Roger) was that they were hobbyists than businessmen. As the big boys (IBM, Xerox, DEC, ...) started marketing computers, they quickly drove out the companies like Cromenco that did not have enough capital or business sense.<<< And drove almost everybody else out of business as well. IBM, I mean. The other guys you mention were bleeding red ink the whole time, too. Xerox had to leave the business for quite a while. So did DEC, for a while. I remember Cromemco as the maker of what were then very highly regarded top end PCs (late 70's). That was maybe 4 years before IBM flattened the whole group of several hundred CPM and small Unix box manufacturers like cockroaches at a square dance. The survivors being apple and trs. Cheers, Chaz