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Re: [PLUG] Fwd: CG: Windows XP warning
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> 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.
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> 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
I don't think so. I know that there were better machines for the same
price. Wasn't the amiga better (gui + sound), cheaper, and it had dos
emulation? I thought that the reason that the other models failed was due
to inept business decisions and standardization. That is MS benefited from
the size of IBM which was trusted at the time, "nobody gets fired for
buying IBM (now it's MS)". So people bought, at home, what they had at
work.
MS didn't write the OS, they just resold other people's work.
Not to mention that soon after that, there were other oses that ran on the
same hardware: dr-dos, and os2, both of which ran dos apps. I have heard
that the two listed were better than MS' product at the time, so in this
case, the market was not efficient.
> machine. I'm not sure how things proceeded from there to where we are
> now.
Fred
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