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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: "personal computer", "PDP", IBM-PC Phobia
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 14:37:07 EST
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> But IBM did not make its PC the standard, the marketplace did.
    Agreed.

>  And
> remember that the IBM PC was technically advanced compared with what was
> available when it entered the market.
    Whoa!  I don't think that this is correct.  The extra 4 bits of address
was an advance, and the uniformity of having a keyboard/CRT standard made it
relatively straightfoward for mass marketing - but what were the technical
advances?
--henry schaffer  n c state univ