[Gllug] IA32? IA64? x86...

[Adam Bower]

Alain Williams wrote:
> Marketing, marketing, also
> 	VHS vs Betamax
> 	M$ Windows vs *nix
> 	...

I was under the impression that neither of those was to do with 
marketing, I thought the main reason VHS started to win over Betamax was 
because Betamax was more expensive than VHS and also the proliferation 
of pr0n movies on VHS. The reason for M$ market dominance isn't really 
marketing either, it was that Unix systems in the 1980's cost many many 
times more to purchase than a x86 compatible and that you could run 
visicalc etc. on the x86 machines. Again this would have been due to the 
cheaper system winning out. (now if you said amiga vs. M$ and marketing...)

Adam



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