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Mentioned recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26272844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26272844 I wonder why the blame is put on IBM; what prob
by gpvos 5y ago
Mentioned recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26272844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26272844
I wonder why the blame is put on IBM; what problem did they have with this?
- WorldMaker 5y agoIBM had massive style guides put together by committees and based on things they'd done for decades before. Some of what they wanted out of the PC was as a poor man's mainframe to potentially get more sales of their mainframes. They wanted DOS to look like the solid, stable System/360 and OS/360 they sold (well, leased in most cases), not some weird upstart UNIX clone from IBM's competitors.