IBM's influence on OSF (Re: AT&T Joining OSF)

[Peter da Silva]

In article <384 at halley.UUCP>, bc at halley.UUCP (Bill Crews) writes:
> If the people aren't who make products popular, why wasn't IBM successful with
> the PC Jr, the Portable PC, the RT, and so on.  If you think IBM was in control
> of the DOS explosion, you've got a lot to learn.

They were wildly successful with these products... by anyone else's standards.
If anyone else than IBM had been selling these machines and sold that many,
they would have been taken as a serious competitor. It's just that IBM
expects better results... because they *get* better results.

Also, CP/M was already being used seriously in business before IBM came up
with the PC. They even had multiuser CP/M systems!
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