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IBM owned literally the whole market on computers at a time when computing equipment was prohibitively expensive and centralised.
by Lorkki 7mo ago
IBM owned literally the whole market on computers at a time when computing equipment was prohibitively expensive and centralised.
- oblio 7mo agoIBM was a special case, I'm not sure there were many markets so thoroughly cornered like IT was for about 3 decades. I guess telephone (AT&T) was similar.
- Lorkki 7mo agoI think there's similarity to the dynamic too. Not many instances have the means at this time to produce LLMs from scratch and operate them at scale.