[theFIRMbss]

>Actually the move to point-and-click was about capturing the home market. Corporations didn't mind the difficult computer interface . . .

No. You're not seeing
the big picture. LONG before
ease-of-use made news

for home machines, Wang
revolutionized office
work with their systems.

Every company
was trying to duplicate
Wang's penetration

of the corporate world.
All the graphic elements
of home systems first

appeared in elite
corporate machines like the Star,
research systems like

the Smalltalk machines
and Lisp Machines targeting
defense contractors.

The home market was
a natural follow-on
to all the work done

to expand the Wang
success through the corporate world.
That's where the bucks were

[Still Thinking]

The home market was a natural follow-on to all the work done to expand the Wang

I love it when my Wang gets expanded.