16 May
2018
16 May
'18
3:11 a.m.
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 4:33 PM, John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
AT&T management no doubt were looking to an OS on
their (IMHO mostly
disastrous) entry into the computer business, for which they agreed to be
broken up.
Actually, I think the behavior at the time shows that they wanted to be in
the hardware business -- *e.g. the 3B20*
*vs. DEC and IBM's offerings of the day*. What they failed to understand
was to be in the SW business it meant that their customers (IBM, DEC, HP,
Microsoft) needed to succeed in selling >>their own<< hardware by using
AT&T's SW.
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