From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 17:11:06 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] PWB - what is the history? In-Reply-To: References: <201805141219.w4ECJo5G030533@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <20180514143453.GA26148@mcvoy.com> <20180515145938.GC7879@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 4:33 PM, John P. Linderman wrote: > AT&T management no doubt were looking to an OS on their (IMHO mostly > disastrous) entry into the computer business, for which they agreed to be > broken up. > Actually, I think the behavior at the time shows that they wanted to be in the hardware business -- *e.g. the 3B20​* *​vs. DEC and IBM's offerings of the day*. What they failed to understand was to be in the SW​ business it meant that their customers (IBM, DEC, HP, Microsoft) needed to succeed in selling >>their own<< hardware by using AT&T's SW. ᐧ ᐧ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: