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To: TChris

No, IBM beat all of them --- or rather, corporate inertia of using IBM beat all of them.

Microsoft went along for the ride.

Competitors of IBM had to use Microsoft because IBM used Microsoft, and those few people who would get off on a limb by using some hardware other than IBM had to answer the question from their boss "Will it work with our IBMs?"

And a monopoly was born.


45 posted on 12/01/2004 7:35:22 AM PST by MeanWestTexan
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To: MeanWestTexan

IBM went to OS2, and MS stomped em.


47 posted on 12/01/2004 8:35:56 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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