Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:40:01 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0108090035270.58215-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20010809130711.I73579@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: :On Wednesday, 8 August 2001 at 16:45:27 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: :> Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> types: :>> On Tuesday, 7 August 2001 at 0:29:20 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: :>>> They switched to the Intel 8088 (*not* 8086, yet) because Motorolla :>>> could not commit volume, and IBM wanted a license to fabricate. :>> This seems unlikely. Where do you get this from? At the time, the PC :>> project was just another pie-in-the sky project, an attempt to do :>> better than the failed 5100. :> :> I don't recall the model numbers on the IBM machines at all. Could the :> 5100 have been the lab machine mentioned above? : :I don't think so. It was billed as a personal computer. I saw one :once in the late 70's: we were an IBM shop at the time, and they tried :to sell one to us, in vain. IIRC it was an integrated box, keyboard, :monitor and CPU, not expandable. I think this was the IBM 9000? -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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