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From: mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why clone the PS/2?
Summary: Software used to sell hardware
Message-ID: <5086@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 23:14:13 GMT
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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You use to hear: "Find the software you want to run, and then buy the
machine it runs on."  Apple seems to have learned this well; what sells
the Mac is not so much the machine,is the excellent, bit-mapped, user
interface, so hospitible to graphic applications.

IBM releases a machine before the interface software is available.

and makes the interface 1/3 as expensive as the machine (no flames -
I'm just a jealous PC DOS user myself).  IBM seems less interested
than Apple in a total machine-interface product.  -- Or maybe it's
just more complicated.
Michael Volow, M.D.
Dept of Psychiatry, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 27705
919 286 0411                           mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP