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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: i-node who wrote (438911)12/7/2008 11:42:41 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574852
 
"Yes, they had them, but IBM didn't have to let him keep them."

No they didn't. But, if you know anything about the original PC, you know that IBM just expected it to be a niche product. The original design was fairly crude, they used way too many chips to get the functionality they did. It wasn't until years later that it got pulled into IBM corporate and made a central product.