On 08/01/2019 19:25, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote: > IOW - was it a success of the compromised design that hit the market > in the perfect time or was it the result of the management decision to > release the "worthless" design to the world. They released the hardware specs so that people would build expansion cards, because they wanted to remove any obstacle to people buying an IBM PC. They didn't expect that other companies would clone their computer, the copyright on the BIOS was supposed to protect against that. > (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. VHS didn't win because of it's technical superiority either. You win by being cheap enough at the right time. But that doesn't mean that everything in the IBM PC was dumb either.Received on 2019-01-08 23:03:58
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