Negative Space: IBM
- Apple switches to Intel processors
- Apple’s decision to switch to Intel means little more than that they are out of the business of commissioning custom CPUs. This ensures that Apple’s CPUs are never slower than those used by Windows, and makes a lot of sense.
- Macs still easier to use?
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Twenty years down, does buying a Macintosh still save help desk time and user trouble? According to IBM, it does.
More Information
- IBM’s Early Computers• (hardcover)
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A fascinating case study of a company shifting to a completely new technology in order to maintain dominance in an industry. (Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, and Emerson W. Pugh)
- Jerry Stratton’s review of BASIC with Style
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“This is an interesting book, coming as it did just as personal computers with no memory and widely-variant BASIC languages were becoming popular.”
