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[Aaron Yeater]

> My understanding is that this was a very Sixties thing when computers would 
> only be affordable by corporations and governments, and access to them thus 
> restricted to employees of corps and govts, doing work authorised by corps 
> and govts.  Hence the computer was seen as Big Brother's ultimate tool of 
> control.
> 
> There's an interesting historical argument (aired recently in the NY Review 
> of Books) that IBM let Gates have the market for operating systems for 
> personal computers because they could not conceive of selling more than a 
> couple of thousand PCs a year until around the middle of the 21st Century, 
> (and these would be merely standalone toys for boys).

interestingly, after the initial pc boom, sales dimmed, giving 
credence to IBMs sense that this was going nowhere.  then two things 
happened.  one was the Mac interface, whose "wysiwyg" design 
philosophy can arguably be said to have popularized computer 
interface; the other was the network; not the internet, necessarily, 
but more the interoffice network, which makes many discrete machines 
behave as if one machine, certainly part of one system.  draw your 
own conclusions...
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