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From: gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM and Apple Operating Systems
Message-ID: <847@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 89 20:28:58 GMT
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In article <4014@peora.ccur.com>, joel@peora.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch) writes:
> 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. 

That's the way I remember it.  The PC was developed in Boca Raton, a
collection of mavericks quite apart from the IBM mainstream.  They
made money despite the company.

But as soon as the PC took off, IBM reorganized the project under the
corporate thumb - and we got such notables as IBM laptops (dog
after dog) and the PS/2 program.  PCs went from being personal to
being a vehicle by which to sell more mainframes.   A sad day.
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