Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the looking-back-in-the-past dept.
cmowire writes "I didn't realize this till I was debugging a stock database and saw the PR piece, but today is the twentieth aniversary of the IBM PC. IBM has a tribute page."
The start of mediocrity in microcomputers.
by
jcr
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· Score: 3, Flamebait
Every PC before IBM's entry was the best work its designers knew how to do. Then came the IBM PC, whose design intention was to be mediocre crap, which would mop up a market segment by offering no virtues beyond the logo of the company that had retarded mainframe computing for the previous 20 years.
The IBM had its keyboard deliberately botched at the insistence of the DisplayWriter group, it used the worst of the available 16-bit processors, its memory map was carved up by people who didn't care about allowing for expandability, and the OS it shipped with was a dismal knock-off of CP/M, STOLEN OUTRIGHT from DR, (which theft was covered up by IBM paying off DR after they realized that Gates had sold them stolen work.)
The IBM PC was crap then, and ever since then it's been an anchor, retarding the development of computing hardware ever since.
Note to Phil Estridge, who ran the project for IBM: rot in hell, you mediocre son of a bitch.
-jcr
-- The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Microsoft's New Slogan
by
V50
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· Score: 3, Flamebait
To Celebrate MS has changed their slogan to: Microsoft: Inferior for twenty years and counting!
Seriously though, in Twenty Years, Microsoft STILL hasn't made an original Operating System:
MS-DOS: Bought QDOS for $50,000, which was in turn was a ripoff of CP/M Windows 1, 2 and 3: Too crappy for comment. Windows NT : Innovated directly from OS/2. Windows 95 : MS innovated huge hunks of it from Apple and even bigger hunks from NeXTstep. Windows 98: Win95 with the Finder ripoff replaced by a Web Browser innovated from Netscape. Windows XP: Windows NT with just about everyone's (AOL, Real, etc.) product innovated into the Operating System.
What I find scary is that Windows ME still is based off of a Twenty Year old OS originaly called 'Quick and Dirty Operating System'.
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Every PC before IBM's entry was the best work its designers knew how to do. Then came the IBM PC, whose design intention was to be mediocre crap, which would mop up a market segment by offering no virtues beyond the logo of the company that had retarded mainframe computing for the previous 20 years.
The IBM had its keyboard deliberately botched at the insistence of the DisplayWriter group, it used the worst of the available 16-bit processors, its memory map was carved up by people who didn't care about allowing for expandability, and the OS it shipped with was a dismal knock-off of CP/M, STOLEN OUTRIGHT from DR, (which theft was covered up by IBM paying off DR after they realized that Gates had sold them stolen work.)
The IBM PC was crap then, and ever since then it's been an anchor, retarding the development of computing hardware ever since.
Note to Phil Estridge, who ran the project for IBM: rot in hell, you mediocre son of a bitch.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
To Celebrate MS has changed their slogan to:
Microsoft: Inferior for twenty years and counting!
Seriously though, in Twenty Years, Microsoft STILL hasn't made an original Operating System:
MS-DOS: Bought QDOS for $50,000, which was in turn was a ripoff of CP/M
Windows 1, 2 and 3: Too crappy for comment.
Windows NT : Innovated directly from OS/2.
Windows 95 : MS innovated huge hunks of it from Apple and even bigger hunks from NeXTstep.
Windows 98: Win95 with the Finder ripoff replaced by a Web Browser innovated from Netscape.
Windows XP: Windows NT with just about everyone's (AOL, Real, etc.) product innovated into the Operating System.
What I find scary is that Windows ME still is based off of a Twenty Year old OS originaly called 'Quick and Dirty Operating System'.