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From: toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The Lawsuit, Standardization, and Whiny DOS Users...
Message-ID: <3394@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: 29 Apr 88 14:40:51 GMT
References: <8685@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> <5823@well.UUCP> <10600@steinmetz.ge.com> <15229@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <15229@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) writes:
>In article <10600@steinmetz.ge.com> desdemona!vita@steinmetz.UUCP (Mark F. Vita) writes:
>>Things IBM did before Apple:
>>----------------------------
>>Open architecture (not even this if you count the Apple II...)
>
>floating point processor capabilities on every machine

Personal computers (IBM 5100, about 1974-5)

(If we consider the IBM-PC before the Mac came out)

Address space greater than 64k

Detatched keyboard

Built-in floppy disk drives, built-in hard disk drives

(And most important of all)
Major acceptance by Fortune 500 companies 

(And let us not forget some other things IBM gave us, and first:)

Floppy disks (Sure Apple used 3.5" first, but IBM used floppies (8") first!)

A good typewriter

Punched Cards, and unit record equipment

EBCDIC character code

Fortran, PL/1, and APL

OS/360

Lots of good jokes



Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM

disclaimer: Most of the above is either :-) or :-(.  But the typewriter is
nice.  The only Apple product I use is the office Laserwriter.  I don't have
a Genuine IBM computer.  In fact, I still occasionally use a CP/M machine.