3 ms·
It also worked before they had an OS monopoly. After all, that's how they got their monopoly.
by netsp 17y ago
It also worked before they had an OS monopoly. After all, that's how they got their monopoly.
- raganwald 17y agoAh, no. They rode IBM's success to their monopoly and even in their first business dealings they had anti-competitive goings on. For example, it was possible to purchase an IBM-PC with DR-DOS instead of PC-DOS, but you ended up paying for PC-DOS and DR-DOS, so it was always cheaper to stick with PC-DOS. Again, I'm saying that it is hard to look at their success and disentangle their products's merits from their business practices.