[NTLK] short history [was: C64 on app store?]

Dennis B. Swaney romad at aol.com
Tue Sep 21 14:37:27 EDT 2010


On 21/09/10 11:16PDT, L.W. Brown wrote:
> IBM tried to rule all computing, and only believed in "big iron": huge machines obtained primarily from them.
> Apple was not jealous of them - quite the opposite: Apple ignored them and starting winning big market share - including in small businesses that could not afford IBM's big iron - with its small machines. IBM then tried to squelch Apple by using IBM's existing market clout in the overall business world to undersell Apple with a small IBM-brand machine (made, eventually, by overseas licensees) using a "new" OS called "DOS" that IBM licensed from some kids (and therefore - supposedly - easily controlled) who called themselves Microsoft.
> The licensing of manufacturing and IBM's lack of actual DOS ownership eventually ran IBM down itself, but by then Apple was barely hanging on thru the loyalty of specialty markets (like creative) and the ownership (sometimes with others) of broadly used (even by MS) tech such as QuickTime, and (with Adobe) font tech and PDF…
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> I cannot find the C64 app on the AppStore. What's it called?
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There's one called "Commodore 64"

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Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney

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