Most people just buy whatever is on the shelf at the Store.
Like I said the majority of PC users don't give a crap about IBM mainframes.
Most people just buy whatever is on the shelf at the Store.
Like I said the majority of PC users don't give a crap about IBM mainframes.
I'm not confusing IBM Mainframes with PC's. I'm just looking at the historical factors and events that resulted in what's "on the shelf at the store" being computers from a wide range of manufacturers, but all using Intel processors and Microsoft operating systems. The average end user that uses a PC at work doesn't have to give a crap about IBM mainframes. They just have to recognize that it'll be convenient to buy a home pc that runs the same OS and can run the same applications they're used to at work.
Whether they know or care that their company uses IBM mainframes is irrelevant. They don't have to know or care that the events and decisions that led up to that being a Microsoft OS running on their work desktop started with the company running IBM mainframes. They just have to know that if they buy a Windows PC, they pretty much already know how to use it.