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IBM Puts PC Business Up for Sale

Posted by michael on from the end-of-an-era dept.

valdean writes "When I was growing up (in the 80s), there were two kinds of computers that my friends (or, more specifically, our parents) had at home: Apple and the IBM-Compatible. IBM defined the PC at that time, and deserves a large share of credit for taking the PC out of the hobby shop and into the mainstream. Now it looks like IBM is getting out of the PC business altogether. CBS Marketwatch has another report."

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  1. Re:Who would have guessed... by Commander+Trollco · · Score: 1, Troll

    IBM, who pioneered open standards in processor architechture, is now making a closed-standard, proprietary chip for a vendor that likes to set rather strict terms regarding the closedness of the standard. It's sad, really.

    Amazing, the hypocrisy of the slashdot crowd, swooning over GNU/linux and free software, yet willing to tolerate, even loving, a Software and hardware vendor that prevents any clone manufacturers from appearing.

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