[Coco][Color Computer] Anyone following the latest Microsoftand Linux debacles?

[Tad Burnett]

Actully IBM never wanted to enter the small computer market but so many 
of its old customers wanted it that they set up a plant in China to do 
the hardware and subcontracted Bill Gates to do software...Bill Gates 
did both DOS and OS/2 1.x....When the PC took off, 10X expectations,  
IBM decided to do its own software in house and MS Dos and Windows was 
off on its own.....
 
As for Tandy...The head of Model 1 project was a big wig at IBM and he 
was told to bring as many people with him as he wanted...Tandy made Bill 
big enough so IBM looked at him and IBM made him so big  nobody can stop 
him....
 
Tad

Ward Griffiths wrote:

>On Friday 14 January 2005 08:07 pm, James the Animal Tamer wrote:
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>
>>Funny.  IBM didn't want the MS name on its OS, so its version was
>>named PC-DOS.  Later, IBM came out with OS/2 and OS/2 2.0.  In short,
>>I don't blame IBM for nor credit IBM with Microsoft's success with
>>Windows.
>>    
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>
>Actually, hard as it is to admit, Tandy Corporation was Microsoft's 
>biggest customer before the renaming of QDOS to PC-DOS (and MS-DOS).
>
>And the triumph of Windoze is due to a little program called VisiCalc.
>
>When VisiCalc first showed up, it ran only on the Apple ][.  But that 
>program caused a whole bunch of accountants and other 
>numerically-inclined folks to buy that machine.  A year or so later it 
>was available for the TRS-80 line, but by then the damage was done.
>
>Apple ][ machines hadn't been selling worth a damn until VisiCalc.  That 
>one program kept Apple afloat long enough for Jobs to see the demo at 
>PARC and come up with the Lisa (and later, the Mac).
>
>If Apple had gone tits up on schedule, there would never have been the 
>competitive pressure to do GUI stuff so fast and furious.  Yes, there'd 
>be GUIs by now.  But things might not have quite so pushy.
>
>I still run one MS OS at home.  TRS-Xenix.  No others need apply.  (I 
>don't run any Macs either).
>  
>
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