> There's a well-known story about the Osborne computers. He had a > line of 8 bit computers which virtually captured the market. As the > 16 bit processors came into being his customers "demanded" 16 bits > even though they had no idea what they were going to do with > it(them?). Osborne capitulated and said that his 16 bit machine was > "in development" (it wasn't far along at all). His customers stopped > buying his 8 bit machines, he couldn't deliver the 16 bit machines > and his company went out of business. So much for aggressive > marketing on CPU width.
They were very cool machines for their time- and I always wanted one. Heavy, yes, but for their time an excellent "luggable". If they had survived, and had developed........? Terence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
