RE: IBM dumb move #3,912,347

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>At COMMON in '95 (spring) I went to a presentation on how to choose a
>network server.  It was presented by a knowledgeable well meaning guy from
>IBM.  Part of the presentation concerned the superiority of the micro
>channel architecture over EISA and ISA.  '95 was the year that IBM dropped
>the PS/2 line.


Well, it was a true statement--  PS/2 -was- a better architecture.

The fact that they were about to hand it over to the boat anchor department
has nothing to do with the truth of the statement.

Of course, IBM tied the PS/2 architecture up in so many licensing knots
that  no one was making cards for it, which left IBM to charge mainframe
prices for a piece of a PC>

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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