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Hm? Windows was first released in November of '85, and the first release that achieved significant popularity was released in '87. Do you mean to say IBM regard
by scythe 17y ago
Hm? Windows was first released in November of '85, and the first release that achieved significant popularity was released in '87. Do you mean to say IBM regarded the Apple Macintosh as a toy?
- grellas 17y agoI really messed that one up. IBM senior management regarded the desktop PC manufactured by its own Boca Raton division as a toy. What IBM missed (with all its big-systems hubris) was the competitive threat that arose when it gave Intel and Microsoft a vehicle by which to seize the future of mass computing when they got to supply the key inner parts for the PC. "Wintel" was intended as a shorthand reference to the Intel/Microsoft teaming but it was obviously a poorly chosen term to refer to the early 1980s era, when Windows didn't even exist.