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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (30628)	5/27/1999 9:21:00 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) of 70976

LOL! I can't say I've eaten one though. BTW, about your point on why IBM failed to see the market potential for PCs, as you pointed out, they thought a PC would be used for the same things as a mainframe. This view was mostly shaped, IMO, by the fact that IBM made its living via mainframe sales and the thought that there were things the mainframe could not do or that the mainframe may be replaced someday, was too unpleasant to consider. The story of the rise and fall of railroad empires is a most instructive one to consider. While PCs (Personal Cars a.k.a autos) flourished, the railroads failed to go forward. This too was mostly because they concentrated on improving the train, rather than cutting their losses and moving on. All those improvements into making faster trains was rendered useless when air travel became popular. Sun Tzu

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