Oh, I don't know. Surely Sinclair's model works only if you can establish yourself as the supplier of a proprietary computer aimed at the price conscious end of the market? I don't see how that could compete once a growing body of manufacturers were transferring to a PC-style open architecture. At some point economies of scale amongst the open people outweigh whatever economies you can achieve with a custom design and there's no way back from there.
And ARM Holdings are still in Cambridge. On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:27 PM, nev young <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Harte wrote: >> >> Almost the entire first half hour was set before I was born! I enjoyed >> it though, even with the slightly weird ending — we're meant to >> believe that Microsoft, Compaq and HP got a major leg up just because >> Sir Clive and Chris Curry fell out? And was Sir Clive really that >> mean? > > If CS and CC hadn't "broken" the UK computing industry I do believe that > things would have been different. By how much and for how long is any body's > guess. From what I remember the underhandedness of the BBC tendering was > far worse than in the TV show. > > From what I hear, from within mensa, CS was (is) rather a control freak and > _must_ have things his own way. That doesn't in any way diminish his > visions and what he did. > > -- > Nev >
