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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: IBM and Apple Operating Systems (Re: dosread.c again)
Message-ID: <2566@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 3 Nov 89 04:44:41 GMT
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In article <6773@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

	I worked with Apple IIs and TRS-80 model Is.  I got a floppy only
IBM PC in the fall of 1983, having to wait 3 months to get CGA.  With
twin floppies and CGA, there is no doubt in my mind that the IBM PC was
a better machine than either the Apple IIe, the TRS-80, or the Kaypro.
Now, of course, I feel that almost any clone is preferable to a PS/2,
but I still hold that the IBM PC was indeed a good computer.  If it
wasn't, not even IBM could have sold it (witness all their flops in the
years since) 



-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                                 "But I digress..."