Interesting… IBM’s big miss on estimating the market reminds of
another PC story. According to Stewart Alsop, Jr., IBM evaluated the
80386 chip for its personal computers and rejected it. The comment that
sticks in my mind is, “It is not a personal computer chip; it’s
designed for a mini-computer”. Therefore, the first 386-powered
computer was from Compaq, who had the field pretty much to themselves
for a while.
One of the OS/2 developers told me that OS/2 (a joint project with IBM)
was developed almost on Compaqs.
—Barry
On 23 Nov 2020, at 16:17, Tom Johnson wrote:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51674/history-ctrl-alt-delete
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