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



In article <3EEDD7E4.2060406@somwehere.com>,
 Rich <someone@somwehere.com> wrote:

>In infinite wisdom Greg Buchner answered:
> > The story goes that when IBM engineers were working on the IBM PC,
> 
> Unless I am greatly mistaken, IBM did not design the PC, management
> decided to outsource the design as the mainframe design cycle was
> far too long and they wanted to bring it to market quickly (once
> Apple had developed the market).