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I only partially agree... Intel, DEC, DG, and other CPU manufacturers were nibbling away from the bottom. Microsoft did it but Digital Research or Sun could ha
by shrubble 4y ago
I only partially agree... Intel, DEC, DG, and other CPU manufacturers were nibbling away from the bottom.
Microsoft did it but Digital Research or Sun could have equally delivered a killing blow if Microsoft had never existed.
- WalterBright 4y agoIBM reached its zenith the day before the Compaq PC came out. The Compaq meant the industry had left IBM behind, and IBM's attempt to catch up, the PS/2 and the PCjr, were failures. (The PCjr was a crippled PC, and the PS/2 was deliberately incompatible with all the PC hardware aftermarket.) After that, nobody was afraid of IBM anymore. All the DECheads (like me) were sure that DEC would swoop in with the LSI-11 packaged as a PC and would wipe the floor in the PC business. Imagine our disappointment when the Rainbow PC came out, a crippled 8086 PC. That was the end of DEC's loyal customer base.
- Spooky23 4y agoIBM never owned PCs. They owned verticals with AS/400 and big business with mainframe. Without the internet, business computing would be defined by private networks and mainframes.
- WalterBright 4y ago> IBM never owned PCs They certainly did, from the debut of the IBM PC to the debut of the Compaq PC. Complete domination.