> On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 06:56:39 AM PDT, Bob Bridges > <[email protected]> wrote: > Wait, MS-DOS is what you were talking about, before? You're suggesting that > if IBM had hung on to > MS-DOS at the time, they would now be worth bazillions instead of Microsoft?
I'm saying that if IBM retained control in MS-DOS and put in the same effort as z/OS, they could have been worth bazillions. The problem is that IBM has always been half-assed in the PC market. Bill Gates didn't do anything groundbreaking. MS-Windows came 6 years after Mac. The mouse & GUI was invented by Xerox before 1973. These corporations simply considered PC's chump change not worth the bother. IBM and Xerox failed because they considered PC more of a nuisance than a goldmine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
