To: discostu
>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
To: theFIRMbss
The home market was a natural follow-on to all the work done to expand the WangI love it when my Wang gets expanded.
34 posted on
07/06/2006 12:23:23 PM PDT by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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