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From: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM new 'standard'
Message-ID: <15555@sun.uucp>
Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 18:29:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 24 18:29:30 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 03:44:40 EST
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Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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Keywords: proprietary not upwardly compat. OS is goof...
Xref: utgpu comp.sys.ibm.pc:2521 comp.misc:397
Summary: Not suprising, maximizes the return

In article <105@ndcheg.UUCP>, evan@ndcheg.UUCP (Evan Bauman) writes:
>     Actually, I find it very ironic that IBM is now developing a closed 
> system and Apple is releasing slotted versions of their Macs.
> 
>   Evan Bauman

I would speculate that IBM believes they can successfully sell a box with
proprietary innards but a public bus, to millions of businesses out there.

If you look at the Mac II and the rumored PC-III or whatever it is called
(I vote for IBM PC/PT [proprietary technology]) they are exactly the same
strategy arrived at by two giants in the PC world. Keep the foreign 
manufacturers in the Add-in board business and out of the main box 
business. 

-- 
--Chuck McManis
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