[rescue] Blades in the dark

[Ken Hansen]

The famous riff between MS & IBM was over the target platform for what
became WinNT - MS wanted to target the 386 and up, IBM wanted 286 and
up, so WinNT required an 80386 CPU and and OS/2 ran on the 80286,
IIRC.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Blades in the dark


> I think he was specifically complaining about the IBM PC.  Of
course, that
> brings up the question: Was the original PC really that bad, or is
it the fact
> that they failed to keep up that is so awefull?  I mean, Apple had
some pretty
> nice CPUs in '84, but IBM came out with the 286 instead (yech).  If
only all
> the people in the late 80s, early 90s had bought Macs.  But then, I
wouldn't
> really be able to program since a computer would never have been
affordable
> (50% profit margins and all, ya know).