Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: New Thread: What _REALLY_ makes a product successful? Message-ID: <1991May24.015243.4846@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 24 May 91 01:52:43 GMT References: <760@mixcom.COM> <1991May20.173553.11809@convex.com> <24947@well.sf.ca.us> Distribution: usa Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 34 In article <24947@well.sf.ca.us> farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes: > Not at all the case. When the PC was introduced, it was the most powerful > micro system offered by anyone with any kind of mass marketing. How about Onyx? Or Cromemco? > Not for a number of years. IBM ruled the roost until Compaq came along > (their first *real* competitor - Eagle, Columbia, and such do *NOT* count, > as their "compatibility" was a joke, and they weren't really all *that* > less expensive). Their "compatibility" was a joke because they tried to *fix* some of IBM's more insane design flaws. They were less expensive, but they were also quite a bit better technically. Again, technically the IBM PC was nowhere. > No, it was much more formal than most. In most cases, where there *was* > a standard to be followed, IBM followed it. Like their keyboard? > Likewise, their > use of CR *and* LF for carriage return and line feed, respectively, when > almost every other system used either one, or the other, but not both. (a) That wasn't a matter of following standards, it was a matter of copying CP/M, Which copied DEC. (b) The ASCII code allows and (some might say) recommend LF as the sole line terminator. I think you're being a little too kind to the machine. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .