Quoting <20011002123204.O1327 at antefacto.com>
by "John P. Looney" <john at antefacto.com>:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:54:57AM +0100, David Murphy mentioned:
> > > If you could patent ideas, IBM would be rolling in the cash on their
> > > "PC" idea.
> > PS/2.
>> Ah, if they had chosen MCA for the first one...maybe we'ed still be using
> it...
The point was acutally that a major reason the PS/2 didn't catch on
was the licensing fees.
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