> I don't think so. The one and only reason that the PC won the home computer
> war was that most money was put into the PC. This is a very simple economic
> principle. Ofcourse, you can go start discussing about the mistakes made by
> the MSX manufacturers to explain why MSX died (from a commercial viewpoint),
> and you can discuss about the mistakes made by commodore, atari, acorn and
> all the other home computer manufacturers from the past to explain why they
> all faded away. But you must not forget that the same, and even bigger,
> mistakes have been made by PC manufacturors. It only did not hurt the market
> that bad because there was more, much and much more money to keep the market
> going. Simply because PC's where used by companies to replace people (at
> least in the beginning). And from the costs to employ one single individual
> you can buy a lot of computers...
I agree with you, I only want to add that the PC were seen as real
computers with a lot of cpu-power and that homecomputers were
not real computers but just toys in comparison. That combined
with the fact the people at work use PC's made the PC such a
success...
Rainier Maas
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