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It was a thing in computers and mainframes. Lots of IBM copies. But I think more importantly they literally released 3 different computer personal systems lite
by panick21_ 3y ago
It was a thing in computers and mainframes. Lots of IBM copies.
But I think more importantly they literally released 3 different computer personal systems literally on the same day. That was totally ridiclous.
Use your PDP11 stuff to compete head to head with PC or go PC compatable, half and half is bad. And then the also had CM/S at the same time. That a totally crazy and wasteful strategy.
The Rainbow guy then went to Sun and build the i386, another non PC compatable that failed. But arguable that one was actually a good idea.
- ghaff 3y agoFair enough about plug-compatible mainframes. Though that probably was able to happen to at least some degree because IBM was acutely aware of anti-trust scrutiny.
- panick21_ 3y agoI mean even before IBM was dominate, after IBM moved to 360. Honeywell copied some of the older mainframes and made lots of sales. Cloning has been a thing in computing for a while and there is no legal way to stop it in many cases. But I'm not an expert on that.