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Subject: Re: Minor historical point: the origin of ms-dos
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 09:15:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 09:15:26 1987
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Reply-To: broehl@watdcsu.UUCP (Bernie Roehl)
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In article <1486@rayssdb.RAY.COM> rxb@rayssdb.RAY.COM (Richard A. Brooks) writes:
>                                     ... if IBM's PC took-off (could any-
>      thing with the IBM name flop??)

The answer, of course, is "yes".  IBM's first micro flopped badly (the 5100,
which came complete with APL and BASIC).  So did the PCjr.  For that matter,
whatever happened to the XT/370 (CMS on a micro)?  As far as I know, it
flopped too.

The PC succeeded partly because of IBM's name, but also because of a few
surprisingly astute decisions on IBM's part (an open architecture being
the main one).