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Re: [PLUG] Fwd: CG: Windows XP warning
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Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > I thought that Compaq reverse engineered the proprietary hardware then
> > sold it for less which opened up the cloning phenomenom. MS just rises
> > their prices over the years, and people don't notice due to falling
> > hardware prices.
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Mike Leone wrote:
> I thought IBM released the specs to their first PC, and that's what
> started all the clones.
Yes, that's true. It's one of the reasons, if not *the* reason "IBM
compatibles" did so much better in the home computer market than
competitors. IBM contracted with Microsoft to write the first OS for the
machine. I'm not sure how things proceeded from there to where we are
now.
Wayne
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