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Subject: Re: Minor historical point: the origin of ms-dos
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 12:25:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 12:25:11 1987
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> In article <1486@rayssdb.RAY.COM>, rxb@rayssdb.RAY.COM (Richard A. Brooks)
> writes:
> >                                                          (could any-
> >  thing with the IBM name flop??)
> 
> This is a joke, right?
> 
> Things with the IBM name flop all the time. Look at the PC Portable (IBM's
> answer to Compaq) or the PC Jr (who could forget that?).
> 
> And don't forget about the 8100.
> -- 
> John A. Muth           ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun,nsc}!amdahl!muth

And the 4" microfloppy standard that IBM adopted -- then quietly dropped
when everyone adopted the Sony 3.5" microfloppy standard.

IBM is NOT 10' tall -- their success is at least partly the quality of
their manufactured products and documentation.  If they were a small
company producing what they have produced, they would become a big company 
eventually.

Clayton E. Cramer