[Ti] Apple's True Market Share!

[Ric Perrott]

Christian,

You are of course correct. I had a momentary brain freeze there.

Digital Research is what I was reaching for but my brain pulled up DEC
instead.

Mea Culpa. :)
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Ric Perrott
Writer, Poet, Pot-Stirrer
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Leue" <Christian.Leue at web.de>
To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Ti] Apple's True Market Share!


> > Absolutely False. I would expect someone like you to know better.
> >
> > IBM chose the Intel 8080 processor as the one that would go in their
> > first entry into the personal computer market. Microsoft then had to
> > PURCHASE an Operating System that ran on it because Gary Kildall of
> > DEC refused to talk to IBM when Bill Gates sent them over there to
> > talk about licensing CP/M to run on the IBM PC.
>
> Sorry to be nit-picking in your absolutisms, Ric, but Digital Equipment
> Corportation (DEC) had nothing to do with Digital Research. I had the
> pleasure of visiting Digital Research in their cool Victorian house in
> Pacific Grove in '80 or '81. Its possibly an urban legend, but Gary
> supposedly was out sailing on Monterey Bay when IBM called, and he
> preferred the recreation to talking to the "suits" from Big Blue.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian