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Back then, IBM was still deep in "nobody gets fired for buying them" territory. It was just the ad style of the day. The same edition of Byte magazine had an O
by pgeorgi 9y ago
Back then, IBM was still deep in "nobody gets fired for buying them" territory.
It was just the ad style of the day. The same edition of Byte magazine had an Oracle ad that was full of DBase IV references (copies of negative articles about it, mostly) with only a small Oracle logo somewhere near the end.
Also stuff like https://78.media.tumblr.com/1fb5edc62a27f8f1c8ef07e611ec4281/tumblr_owhrbtaPvc1u8gbuwo1_1280.jpg https://78.media.tumblr.com/1fb5edc62a27f8f1c8ef07e611ec4281...