I'll say it again. In 1979 IBM had very little interest in what was to become the PC market.
The PC did unify the market somewhat. As a software house we had to provide solutions for one-off purchases to people who had no clue. In two years I worked on Apple IIE clone, Altos 8000, Cromemco System 3, North Star Horizon, Tandy TRS 80. Not much code was re-usable from platform to platform. We bailed out just before the IBM PC landed and went back to earning a crust on mainframe. Sometimes you can be too early. Bit like tennis. Rod Laver was the GOAT but he didn't make the motza they do now. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 6:06 AM Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 15:50:14 +0000, Bill Johnson wrote: > > >They were forced out in a lawsuit first filed in 1969 that the > government/IBM settled in early 80’s. I’m not referring to them selling > their PC business to Lenovo. Read up. It set up MSFT to dominate the PC > software market. IBM and Microsoft: Antitrust then and now > > > Cite? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
