Xref: utzoo comp.os.minix:7787 comp.sys.ibm.pc:37420 comp.unix.xenix:8363 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: IBM and Apple Operating Systems (Re: dosread.c again) Message-ID: <6773@ficc.uu.net> Date: 1 Nov 89 19:13:22 GMT References: <6661@ficc.uu.net> <10609@cbnews.ATT.COM> <143@asihub.UUCP> <6724@ficc.uu.net> <2564@optilink.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 20 In article <2564@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: > In article <6724@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > > IBM didn't create the PC indusry. It doesn't do that any more. It looked and > > it saw a thriving industry, and said "I want that". So it took it. > Short memory, Mr. da Silva? Before the IBM PC came out, there were > Apple IIs, and CP/M boxes, and Radio Shack computers, but it was > still a hobbyist market. Short memory, Mr. Cramer? The IBM-PC was priced in the same range as Altos, Cromemco, and other low-end business computers running various advanced versions of CP/M. It was a LOT more expensive than the Apples and Radio Shacks. The only reason it sold was the percieved value of the IBM name. For quite some time the only way to do anything useful with an IBM was to stick a "Baby Blue" card (or equivalent) in and run CP/M software. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "That particular mistake will not be repeated. There are plenty of mistakes left that have not yet been used." -- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)