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."
Is this really something to 'celebrate'?
by
phillymjs
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· Score: 0, Troll
So, 20 years ago today, IBM started selling a half-assed, piece of shit machine that was slapped together in a hurry from off-the-shelf parts, just so IBM could grab a piece of the Apple II's marketshare. Whoo hoo.
Actually, what I think today should be remembered for is that it's the day IBM essentially handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom. What do we have to show for it? Twenty years later, the world runs on unsecure, virus-friendly bloatware so complex that most of the gains in productivity we've seen along the way have been negated by all the time spent rebooting, reinstalling Windows, and sitting on hold with tech support. It amazes me what people will put up with.
I would think that most of the people who read/. would treat this as a somber occasion, the day that a possible future that held so much promise was extinguished like a match dropped in a puddle.
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So, 20 years ago today, IBM started selling a half-assed, piece of shit machine that was slapped together in a hurry from off-the-shelf parts, just so IBM could grab a piece of the Apple II's marketshare. Whoo hoo.
/. would treat this as a somber occasion, the day that a possible future that held so much promise was extinguished like a match dropped in a puddle.
Actually, what I think today should be remembered for is that it's the day IBM essentially handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom. What do we have to show for it? Twenty years later, the world runs on unsecure, virus-friendly bloatware so complex that most of the gains in productivity we've seen along the way have been negated by all the time spent rebooting, reinstalling Windows, and sitting on hold with tech support. It amazes me what people will put up with.
I would think that most of the people who read
~Philly