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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (446673)1/11/2009 1:36:16 PM
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"Just to cut to the chase, are you trying to say that you believe we would not have a PC on every desk as we do now had IBM chosen to either ignore the segment altogether OR to go with their on RISC or other processor and their own OS? "

What put a computer in just about every home was the fact you can get a decent system for under $500. At $1500, it would have been restricted to business use for the most part. Sure, some homes would have them, but not a lot.
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