RE: IBM dumb move #3,912,347

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that the micro channel architecture was pretty cool.  The point I
was trying to make was that IBM frequently has a lack of communication
between the right and left hands.  IBM isn't quite like Atari and Commodore,
who both had superior technology in the late 80s and dis-marketed themselves
into oblivion, but I think there's a parallel.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PaulMmn [mailto:PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 7:17 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: IBM dumb move #3,912,347
> 
> 
> >At COMMON in '95 (spring) I went to a presentation on how to choose a
> >network server.  It was presented by a knowledgeable well 
> meaning guy from
> >IBM.  Part of the presentation concerned the superiority of the micro
> >channel architecture over EISA and ISA.  '95 was the year 
> that IBM dropped
> >the PS/2 line.
> 
> 
> Well, it was a true statement--  PS/2 -was- a better architecture.
> 
> The fact that they were about to hand it over to the boat 
> anchor department
> has nothing to do with the truth of the statement.
> 
> Of course, IBM tied the PS/2 architecture up in so many 
> licensing knots
> that  no one was making cards for it, which left IBM to 
> charge mainframe
> prices for a piece of a PC>
> 
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
> 
> 
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