Price and also simplicity of implementation. Price is especially significant when people are tip-toeing into something not sure if they are going to like it - that was the case with VHS and Beta. "I'll get one of these cheap VHS VCRs, and if I like it, I'll get a good Beta later." Of course, once they had a library of VHS tapes, "later" never came.
Charles On Thursday 08 June 2006 14:28, Chase, John wrote: > ... _how on earth_ Ethernet managed to gain so much market > acceptance and prevail over Token-Ring. It certainly wasn't due > to technical superiority. (Far from it!) From what I can gather, > it was price, price, and ... oh yeah ... price... > > So it was with VHS over BETA, TCPIP over SNA, Windows over OS/2, > (E)ISA over MicroChannel.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
