Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: IBM and the future Message-ID: <426@terak.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 18:07:36 EST Article-I.D.: terak.426 Posted: Tue Mar 5 18:07:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:30:55 EST References: <792@topaz.ARPA> <836@ames.UUCP> Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 19 > what interests me in the next ten to 15 years of computing is: > 1) as micros approach mainframes in speed, what's ibm going to do? are > they going to enter the supercomputer market by necessity? are ibm's > somewhat stagnate views of computing going to affect the rest of the market > with pc/370 ideas? IBM in the supercomputer market? Not very likely. IBM's strength is in Business with a capital "B". They've failed pretty miserably in past attempts to expand into other markets. About 15 years ago they made a super number-cruncher called the 360/91. They sold 4 of 'em. A few years back they came out with a "home computer", the 16K IBM PC, which had BASIC in ROM and a cassette port. Remember that? Nobody bought it. Instead, businesses bought the PC with dual disk drives, and then Winchesters. So IBM made another run at the "home computer" market with the PC-jr. They didn't sell many of those until they made it capable of running business applications like Lotus 1-2-3. -- Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug