IBM invented the PC (and Bill Gates)
On 03/24/2011 07:53 PM, RHF wrote:
On Mar 24, 6:36 pm, Beam Me Up ScottyThen-Destroy-
wrote:
On 3/24/2011 6:29 PM, dave wrote:
On 3/24/2011 11:48 AM, bpnjensen wrote:
On Mar 24, 11:44 am, Beam Me Up ScottyThen-Destroy-
Who created the Microsoft Wealth? Without Bill Gates, who would have
created personal computing that would become a world wide success.
He did not create it so much as concentrate it. Now, he's beginning
to spread it around again...but still, not creating it.
- Gates created a successful version.
nah,,, Nah... NAH ! ! !
Not even that : IBM created to broad a ranging PC
Specification for their IBM PC Hardware that enabled
'others' to "Clone" {Re-Engineer} their IBM PC Designs;
at the Assembly Component Level {Kit PCs} and
enter the PC Market Place.
? Remember the first few Years of the PC 'Clones' !
This caused a Separate need for a Parallel {Clone}
Opperating System to Run on the PC Clones.
! Hence IBM-DOS -morphed-into- MS-DOS !
There Was a Moment-In-Time -when- All Roads
Lead To BG@MS and MS Corp; and BG@MS
Capitalized On That Historical Dynamic Market
Point [.] -and-the-rest-is-history-
-where-as-
Apples History is One of Strict Hardware and Software
Control Plus Licensing of it all; and a relatively 'limited'
Market Share as a result.
-better-ain't-good-if-it-is-not-readily-available-to-all-
and that is the way 'i' see/remember it ~ RHF
Look up Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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