On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:33:29 -0500, Anne & Lynn Wheeler
<l...@garlic.com> wrote:

>2nd hand tale of some of the competitors testimony in gov./ibm
>anti-trust trial ... all computer manufacturers knew by the late 50s
>that the single most important factor in the market place was to have a
>compatible architecture across the whole machine line ... 

Of course that doesn't mean it's good to only have one machine line.

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