Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: 12 Jan 2025 02:46:22 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <2e17ec15-582f-5a71-84e5-d4d490274270@example.net> <7454fa51-3534-2584-2197-90613efb2091@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Pj6FPmJlgrH5dQBPWSaQ1wSNB7bh/P6yM2bEeT0H/b3N3r30Rl Cancel-Lock: sha1:rOpGOwGcp2hb6mBuFUqZ/l1n+Ps= sha256:PdreSI1dQphHvP9Apamwd4foDTAAoRCtMDmV1+iuzHM= User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64189 On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:38:14 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > The 8086 would have been better, but the extra wiring apparently > would have pushed up the price too much according to some old > interview with an IBM guy. > They didn't KNOW it would be super-successful, so they kinda hedged > their bets, split the diff. 640k banks were a hell of a lot better > than 64k banks. I think IBM stuck the project in Boca Raton and prayed for a rising sea level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Christensen Maybe apocrypha but the story went that Christensen sent a memo up the ladder suggesting IBM look at the personal computer market. When the reply came back down the chain of command he framed it and put it on his office wall. The reply was while he was free to mess around with toys on his own time there wasn't a market there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/23_Datamaster That was where IBM was comfortable, a $9000 glorified Trash-80. I'm not planning to attend the funeral services anytime soon but IBM has always been extremely good at pricing themselves out of a market.