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Article: The Big Winners and Losers With IBM's New PCs

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The innovative computers, printers and peripherals that make up IBM's vaunted new "Personal System/2" (hereinafter PS/2) are starting to arrive in the stores, and the new operating system for PS/2 won't be out for a year or so. The new system, revealed with great hoopla this month, is so new that you'd be skating on extremely thin ice if you tried to predict the winners and losers from IBM's big announcement.

Gentle reader, pass the water wings-we're going to do some predicting.

Big Winner No. 1: You and me.

The average computer user is going to win big from this development, because the new IBM computers are genuinely better. Despite disclaimers you hear from folks like Compaq, Zenith, ...

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