At 8:54 AM -0400 7/2/98, Rainmaker wrote:
>IBM was in and anti-trust case at the time and did not want to
>own an operating system. So they agreed to a royalty agreement.
For those of you who are interested in IBM's history -- its legal troubles
-- insights into the 'black box' team that built the PC -- recommend
_Father, Son and Co_ by Tom Watson Jr
He also has an interesting perspective on how companies should be "owned"
once their "originators" have moved on ...
>> "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
>> Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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