> On Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 06:30:51 AM PDT, Crawford Robert C
> (Contractor) wrote:
> I also have to wonder if MS-DOS would've taken off at all if IBM had kept it.
>
IBM has a track record of shooting themselves in the foot. Consider what they
lost on the first day "The Cloud" was announced. They were involved in creating
the cloud specifications and it read like a sales brochure for z/OS Sysplex.
They remained silent instead of professing to be the first and only existing
cloud from day 1. Of course the API was not available but the API is not an
absolute requirement. After a couple of years, the specifications had changed
radically because only IBM could meet the demands of the specification yet no
one realizes could market themselves as the one true cloud.
On Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 06:30:51 AM PDT, Crawford Robert C
(Contractor) <[email protected]> wrote:
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