Mike,
> Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me! In case you hadn't noticed, there are more PCs
>than every other type of computer ever made, ever! Did you notice this?
Oh come on, since when has quantity been any measure of QUALITY? The black
death was rather popular in the middle ages too you know....
There is one major reason that the PC is so popular, despite being such a
lousy, unreliable system (and before you harp on again about how reliable YOUR
PC is try supporting a site with 400+ PCs on it. You'll soon change your
opinion of the reliability of these machines). Remember the old adage from the
'70s and early '80s "Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM", that's why PCs are
so popular today....they made it into countless companies around the world and
thus filtered down into the homes of the workers when they wanted their own
machines (usually to run software they'd swapped with their colleagues at
work).
The expandability factor helped a lot too, but if not for the PC's popularity
in the workplace it would've gone the same way as the Apple ][, S100 based
machines etc.
TTFN - Pete.
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Received on Mon Oct 25 1999 - 11:14:31 BST