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Dave Winer rewrites the history of the PC

April 7, 2010

From Dave Winer’s iPad review: “IBM didn’t try to turn the world upside-down with the PC in 1981, however, in 1984, they did, with the PC jr, and failed.” This is actually almost the inverse of the truth. Don Estridge, who headed up the IBM PC project, turned the way that IBM worked on its [...]

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Daring Fireball’s wishful thinking

November 19, 2009

I totally understand where John Gruber is coming from with his post on “The OS Opportunity“. The problem is that there’s a whole lot of wishful thinking in there. First of all, go read John’s post. Rather than try and summarise here and potentially mischaracterise what he’s saying, you just go read it. Back? Good. [...]

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