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From: hwt@leibniz.UUCP (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long)
Summary: PET was of little impact
Keywords: history, pc, workstation
Message-ID: <121@leibniz.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 88 19:08:32 GMT
References: <5946@venera.isi.edu> <5458@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, CANADA
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The PET had little impact on the field.  I used to sell/program them.
At the time they were already weak - max 32K RAM, BASIC only, closed
hardware system. (Sounds like the early Mac, but the software wasn't
great.)  The software that carried PET for two years was a suite of
programs for pig farmers, and WordPro (a word processor with dot commands).

 
Henry Troup
These are not the opinions of Bell Northern Research, but then, what are?