News reaches us that IBM Corp has been playing with virtual reality – on the RS/6000 no less, and it will raise deep suspicions in the minds of those bemused at the way chief executive John how IBM united Germany and then went on to win the Gulf War Akers manages to retain his indomitably chirpy optimism in the face of the mounting adversities that face his company, and Twin Peakies will wonder whether he hasn’t got so wrapped up in IBM’s virtual reality that he is permanently engaged in an updated re-run of Ben Horne’s revisionist odyssey in which the redoubtable owner of the Great Northern Motel acts out how the South won the Civil War.
