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From: joel@peora.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM and Apple Operating Systems
Message-ID: <4014@peora.ccur.com>
Date: 7 Nov 89 14:54:37 GMT
References: <4992@internal.Apple.COM> <10038@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp, Orlando FL
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I think a good case can be made that the reason that the IBM PC was
successful was that the big corporate honchos in IBM didn't think
it was going to be successful. It was an experimental project by
Independent Business Unit at IBM. A fairly small group of people
working with limited resources created the IBM PC. I think if the
guys in Armonk and White Plains had had any idea about how successful
the PC was going to be they would have smothered it with all the
corporate bureaucracy that important projects normally get at IBM.
I think they would have forced it to be much more tightly integrated
into their overall product line if they had thought that they were
going to sell millions of them.



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