Re: [FRIAM] The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE | Mental Floss

[Angel Edward]

I was an indirect beneficiary of IBM’s secret development of the PC in Florida.

IBM brought in my graduate school friends two-person company that was operating 
out of his garage to teach the IBM team about microprocessors. The IBM 
experience led to that company (Integrated Computer Systems, now Learning Tree 
International) becoming the leading company in the world providing short 
courses on high technology. During the 80’s I got to teach courses in image 
processing, graphics and networking all over the U.S., Canada and Europe for 
them.

Ed
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> On Nov 24, 2020, at 9:06 AM, Barry MacKichan  
> wrote:
> 
> Interesting… IBM’s big miss on estimating the market reminds of another PC 
> story. According to Stewart Alsop, Jr., IBM evaluated the 80386 chip for its 
> personal computers and rejected it. The comment that sticks in my mind is, 
> “It is not a personal computer chip; it’s designed for a mini-computer”. 
> Therefore, the first 386-powered computer was from Compaq, who had the field 
> pretty much to themselves for a while.
> 
> One of the OS/2 developers told me that OS/2 (a joint project with IBM) was 
> developed almost on Compaqs.
> 
> —Barry
> 
> On 23 Nov 2020, at 16:17, Tom Johnson wrote:
> 
> https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51674/history-ctrl-alt-delete 
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Re: [FRIAM] The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE | Mental Floss

[Barry MacKichan]

Interesting… IBM’s big miss on estimating the market reminds of 
another PC story. According to Stewart Alsop, Jr., IBM evaluated the 
80386 chip for its personal computers and rejected it. The comment that 
sticks in my mind is, “It is not a personal computer chip; it’s 
designed for a mini-computer”. Therefore, the first 386-powered 
computer was from Compaq, who had the field pretty much to themselves 
for a while.


One of the OS/2 developers told me that OS/2 (a joint project with IBM) 
was developed almost on Compaqs.


—Barry

On 23 Nov 2020, at 16:17, Tom Johnson wrote:


https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51674/history-ctrl-alt-delete




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Re: [FRIAM] The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE | Mental Floss

[Dean Gerber]

 Tom--
Thanks Tom. That was a nostalgia trip. Could not live without it now either, 
the Windows version.
--Dean
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