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- From: gsm@mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson)
- Subject: Re: MS does build hardware
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.114917.17449@mendelson.com>
- Organization: Mendelson Computer Consulting
- References: <neilg.703384628@sfu.ca> <1992Aug10.124837.1188@python.microcom.com> <1992Aug11.012537.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 11:49:17 GMT
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- tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug10.124837.1188@python.microcom.com>, short@microcom.com (Todd Short) writes:
- >> Adam Frix writes:
- >>>why doesn't Microsoft take the bull by the horns and develop hardware to
- >>>counter Apple? Couldn't they design and build the ultimate DOS/Windows
- >>>machine, where everything is integrated, and software/hardware developers have
- >>>to follow design rules, etc., etc.?
- >>>
- >>>Or would that be too much of a monopoly?
- >>>
- >> Microsoft can't do hardware, except for mice. Remember that TruImage thing
- >> a year ago? (The Postscript clone?) They passed it off to a printer manufac-
- >> turer.
- >>
- >
- >Actually, MS is going into the soundcard hardware business as well
- >[see 8-10-92 issue of PCWeek]:
-
- I must be showing my age, but one of Microsoft's early products was a
- 8080 (or possibly a Z80) board for the Apple II. It allowed you to run
- CP/M (remember that). It was a big hit in its time (pre IBM PC).
-
- Geoff.
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