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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">Interesting… IBM’s big miss on estimating the market reminds of another PC story. According to Stewart Alsop, Jr., IBM evaluated the 80386 chip for its personal computers and rejected it. The comment that sticks in my mind is, “It is not a personal computer chip; it’s designed for a mini-computer”. Therefore, the first 386-powered computer was from Compaq, who had the field pretty much to themselves for a while.</p>
<p dir="auto">One of the OS/2 developers told me that OS/2 (a joint project with IBM) was developed almost on Compaqs.</p>
<p dir="auto">—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 23 Nov 2020, at 16:17, Tom Johnson wrote:</p>
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