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To me the amazing thing isn't that DEC pooh-poohed the idea of the PC, but rather that IBM was agile enough not to!
by caf 9y ago
To me the amazing thing isn't that DEC pooh-poohed the idea of the PC, but rather that IBM was agile enough not to!
- digi_owl 9y agoThe PC was really an outlier. Not only was it an IBM product, but beyond the BIOS everything was off the shelf (even the OS). So once the BIOS was cloned, and the clone defended as clean in court, they promptly tried to reassert control with the PS/2 and spiraled into irrelevance.