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From: shawn@marilyn.UUCP (Shawn P. Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: IBM and Apple Operating Systems (Re: dosread.c again)
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Date: 2 Nov 89 13:28:46 GMT
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In article <1774@naucse.UUCP> wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson) writes:
>What thriving industry?  At the point that the IBM PC came out there
>was little going on in the Home/Desktop PC market.  Yes there were
>CP/M based machines that could be purchased for a small fortune, but
>I would not call it a thriving industry.

I think you've forgotten about the Apple II, the Commodore 64, and the
Radio Shack Color Computer.  Also, Apple was invading the education
market at quite a fast pace.

>IBM went out on a limb and the gamble paid off.

IBM does not go out on limbs.  IBM wrote off the micro market a long
time ago, saying nobody could make money at it.  When they saw what was
growing, though, they decided to get involved.