Re: The apple 2, the PC, and the clones

[John <tgbpoi29@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>]

On 2 Jul 2002, Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> Ah, but the business community as a whole never considered Apples
> (of any kind) to be a respectable business machine.  The acknowledged
> counterculture origins of Apple did not inspire the kind of confidence that
> IBM did.  When IBM entered the market, the business PC was born.
> (Remember, in marketing, perception _is_ reality!)

FWIW, in my mind CP/M was the business OS, the Apple 2 was more for home
and hobby, TRS-80 for home (cheaper and lesser than the Apple 2).

CP/M had Wordstar, Supercalc, dbase, and others.






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