Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 1/11/25 9:46 PM, rbowman wrote:

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.

   Someone up top must have seen an Atari-400 in a
   shop somewhere ...
   But, clearly, there WAS a large market for something
   a little more 'dignified'.

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.

   That much is true.
   They rely on The Name a bit too much, it's supposed
   to mean 'quality', 'the best', to customers. There
   WAS a span where that was kinda true, maybe 1950 to
   1970.