Re: The IBM PC's slavish devotion to the Apple II

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"Great Hierophant" <great_hierophant@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I don't think it could be any clearer that IBM, when idesigning its
> home computing machine, tried to out Apple Apple.

Um, isn't that pretty much the basic definition of competition in ANY
marketplace?  To sell something more attractive than your competitor, either
by adding features or selling an identical product at a lower price?

I don't think that IBM had any devotion to Apple computers.  Apple just
happened to have the first real success in the home-user market segment.
The story would read the same if Atari or Commodore had beaten Apple to the
punch.  In fact, the whole argument could be recycled using the IIgs as a
response to the Commodore 64's trumping Apple IIes.