🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <76000032@uiucdcsp>, gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> IBM, I believe, only stumbled with the PCjr (and slightly with the
> AT).  They killed it any gave up on the market completely.  I wonder
> what will happen if they stumble with the new PS/2 line (which I think
> they will) -- will they get out of the PC business of become a
> spectator manufacture?

I don't see that IBM particularly stumbled with the AT.  They most certainly
did with the RT.

However, I don't see the PS/2s bombing.  First off, I think I read somewhere
that the PS/2 Model 50 was the biggest selling personal computer around (with
the Mac SE running second).  They're much more reasonably designed than the
first ones -- service people I know love the machine because you can take the
whole thing apart without a screwdriver.  The Micro-channel architecture seems
to have many of the same capabilities as the Mac II NuBus (although, I have no
clue which could be deemed "better")

And, someday, when they have an operating system that knows about memory above
640K...
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