[NTLK] C64 on app store?

[David Kendal]

On 22 Sep 2010, at 16:47, Michael Grossman wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, M. Horvat wrote:
>> I'd like to know what made IBM "so evil" in the 1980s. (I'm not  
>> from the
>> USA, and I didn't even exist back then) Was Apple simply jealous of  
>> the
>> IBM PC's success after the failure of the Apple /// and Lisa?
>>
>> -Matej Horvat


I dug up a great post about this a while back:
http://cl.ly/2VV1
and wrote a little about it here:
http://cl.ly/2Ung

There's also the Jargon File entry on IBM:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/IBM.html
which goes a long way towards explaining the problems computer people  
found with IBM right up through the end of the last century.

-- dpk.