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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Technical excellence in publishing (or a lack thereof)
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Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 09:44:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 12 09:44:44 1987
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Keywords: publications BYTE Dr. Dobb's

> Crap. They care about solutions. IBM legitamized the whole crop of 
> buisness oriented microcomputers, and made it fit on top of the
> desk instead of BE the desk, to boot. (no put intended)

Talking about bovine excrement. CP/M had already achieved considerable
acceptance from the business community. In fact there was a fair amount
of opposition to the IBM-PC at first because it wasn't CP/M compatible.

IBM legitimised nothing. As usual, they took over an existing market.
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