> On 2019-01-08, at 22:41, smf <smf@null.net> wrote: > >> (of mostly other manufacturers than IBM itself I guess) back to the supposed brilliancy of engineering that went into the machine in question. > > Nobody is saying that the reason that the industry adopted the IBM PC was due to it's brilliant engineering. I kinda thought there were some who at least implied that it was brilliantly engineered. > VHS didn't win because of it's technical superiority either. Yup - good example. Kind of PC of the video. > You win by being cheap enough at the right time. Just in reality the IBM PC was anything but cheap as far as I recall. The later clones were and (as it looked from the perspective of the place I lived at the time) flipped the market completely. > But that doesn't mean that everything in the IBM PC was dumb either. Sure. No disagreement. -- SD! - http://e4aws.silverdr.com/Received on 2019-01-09 11:01:21
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