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Subject: Re: Re: Unix-PC's poor sales
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Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 13:12:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  5 13:12:00 1986
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>Peter Dibble writes:
>>Barry Shein writes:
>> ...Convergent Tech (maker of the UNIX/PC) is basically
>> in deep s**t over this product as AT&T has cut orders to almost nil.
>I was excited about the Unix-PC when it came out.  I stayed excited until
>I found out that AT&T was keeping all the important details about the
>hardware and software secret.   ...   I heard
>(strictly as a rumor) that Convergent started this by refusing to let
>the hardware details be known.  ...  [if it fails]  find the
>person who decided the machine should be closed in all senses and lay
>the blame at his feet.

When will the computer makers learn?  Closed systems are totally brain
damaged.

If you make a good system, you will never be able to make it good
enough for everyone.  No matter hw big you are, you will never be able
to meet the complete demands of te marketplace (thank God: it gives the
others a chance too...).

Xerox Star, Macintosh, UNIX-PC:  All are good ideas, all are closed
systems.  Two seem to be outright failures on the open market, the
other is dissapointing and finally being made an open system (the
Mac).

Apple II, IBM-PC, DEC mini's:  Reasonable, horrible, or good
(respectively), they all sell like crazy.  They are all open systems.

Disclaimer:  I own or work on all of the above, but none of the
manufacturers pay me anything.