Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:38:14 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   The 8086 would have been better, but the extra wiring apparently
   would have pushed up the price too much according to some old
   interview with an IBM guy.
   They didn't KNOW it would be super-successful, so they kinda hedged
   their bets, split the diff. 640k banks were a hell of a lot better
   than 64k banks.

I think IBM stuck the project in Boca Raton and prayed for a rising sea
level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Christensen

Maybe apocrypha but the story went that Christensen sent a memo up the
ladder suggesting IBM look at the personal computer market. When the reply
came back down the chain of command he framed it and put it on his office
wall. The reply was while he was free to mess around with toys on his own
time there wasn't a market there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/23_Datamaster

That was where IBM was comfortable, a $9000 glorified Trash-80. I'm not
planning to attend the funeral services anytime soon but IBM has always
been extremely good at pricing themselves out of a market.