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To: ACS_101 who wrote (26301)	4/1/1999 2:50:00 PM
From: Joe Copia	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

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To: ACS_101 who wrote (26301)	4/1/1999 2:52:00 PM
From: Instock	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 122087

Anyone else going to Hold MZON Short over the weekend? This Dog is dieing.. below $15 and near it's interday low. I think it is MUCH safer to HoldING MZON Short over the weekend then holding almost anything Long. IMO Think there will be increased Profit taking and short selling near the close. Maybe a GAP DOWN Monday.. Instock

To: ACS_101 who wrote (26301)	4/1/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: Nazbuster	Respond to of 122087

For all you mainframe techies: REDMOND, WA - 04/01/99 Microsoft has announced that it has purchased a 75% stake in IBM for $837.2 billion. This makes Microsoft the largest computer company in the world, dwarfing the likes of Computer Associates and Gambolitti Systems. A Microsoft company spokesperson, Loof Lirpa, gave brief details of the takeover. "We will be simplifying the IBM platform, currently known as the mainframe," explained Lirpa. "With immediate effect, we will be withdrawing support for VSE and VM as there is no place in the Microsoft inventory for small, efficient operating systems. The focus will be on the new WINDOS/390. Current OS/390 users will be expected to upgrade to WINDOS/390 within the next 18 months and we expect to have conversion tools available early in 2003. There will be a nominal upgrade fee, of course. Users of OS/390 who cannot produce their Certificate of Authenticity from the original brown cardboard box that contained their product tapes will not be eligible for the upgrade program and will need to buy WINDOS/390 from a registered dealer at full list price." WINDOS/390 will initially be available only in the US and will require a minimum of a 9672/Y86 to run. "We will be dropping the "mainframe" nomenclature," says Lirpa, "as we have put so much effort into making it a dirty word. We will instead be recognising the pioneer and chief architect of the IBM 360 computer and calling these machines "Amdahls". To save any confusion with any companies of a similar name, our lawyers will be contacting them to inform them that they must desist from using a name that is clearly Microsoft property." Early design plans for WINDOS/390 centre around giving it a simpler end-user interface and simplification of the internals of the operating system. For example, the system operator will be able to cancel any job by double clicking on its name on the console. "This will take a bit of getting used to as the names scroll by but anyone who has played X-Wing Fighter for a couple of years will soon get the hang of it. In the initial release, an animated paper clip will pop up, smile, wink, turn a somersault and then ask "Are you sure?"" Abends will be brought to the operator's attention by a cheerful rendition of the Funeral March from Saul accompanied by a user-friendly pop up that asks the operator to click on "OK". Internally to WINDOS/390, much streamlining will occur, starting with the removal of the FREEMAIN SVC. As Lirpa explains convincingly, "What the heck's the point of having 2 Gb of main memory if you don't use it all up from time to time? Besides, a re-boot is a great way to clear out unused programs and gives people a welcome break to reduce the risk of OOS (which we are endeavouring to get renamed to WINOOS). We are also targetting JCL as something that is long overdue for rationalisation. A WINDOS/390 DD statement will probably look like "/\File_Full_Of_Stuff DD DSN=http://c:\MyDocuments\Accounts_Dept/Things_To_Do_Today/Urgent\Stuff_Th at_I_Didn't_Do_Yesterday, UNIT=C:" Notice the user-friendly file name, the simplified unit names (A: thru Z:) and the omission of the DISP parameter. If the file doesn't exist, the operator will be asked if they want to create it and, if it does exist and somebody else is already using it, a friendly pop up box will inform you of a sharing violation and ask if you want to retry, abort, cancel, terminate or OK. Notice that OK is an option for everything in WINDOS/390 - in fact it is often the only option as in "Unexpected error in IGG019AB. Reboot required. OK?" More information on the takeover is available at www.wallstreet_journal.com/ms_ibm.htm. Details of WINDOS/390 features are at www.microsoft.com/WINDOS390.htm P.S. If you take this seriously, you need professional help...