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Who else produces mainframes???????? What is the market share of the
competition /IBM???????? There is your answer.
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IBM's competitors essentially handed a monopoly to IBM when they
announced decisions NOT to implement a 64-bit architecture. So if it is
a monopoly, it's not by IBM's malicious actions.
Rick
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