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To: Bala Vasireddi who wrote (9287)	4/24/1998 2:46:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Doesn't surprise me one bit. I think even Microsoft itself was using Unix servers for certain Internet access as recently as about a year ago (as I recall, there was a flurry of postings about it here on SI), and I think I read somewhere that MSNBC is also Unix based. On the other hand, IBM seems to have abandoned AIX in favor of NT for its Usenet servers recently (FWIW, at about that time I and many others noticed a dramatic drop in the level of service -- I no longer use ibm.net, so I don't know how it's going any more). I've always wondered whether MSFT does their accounting on PC's, or if they've got a humongous IBM mainframe someplace whirring away. JMHO.