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On 2018-05-22, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:

> On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 3:13:41 PM UTC-4, Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>
>> I've repeated periodically before ... one of the former co-workers said
>> his father was (economics professor) involved in the gov. anti-trust
>> case against IBM. He relates that executives from the other companies
>> testified that by the late 50s, all the computer makers realized that
>> product line compatibility was single most important factor (customer
>> computer uptake was rapidly expanding and increasingly, customers needed
>> to upgrade). They claimed that only IBM executives were able to force
>> plant managers (of different models in product line) to conform to
>> product line capatibility.
>> 
>> because customers were spending so much resources with upgrading
>> computers to handle increasing wirkload ... IBM had significant
>> marketing advantage with story about product line compatibility.
>
> I don't know about the GE product line, but RCA followed
> with a S/360 compatible design in their Spectra series.

...which they sold to Univac when they decided to get out.
Univac folded it into their S/360 compatible line, and their
VMOS (Virtual Memory Operating System) became Univac's VS/9,
when their own 9700 and OS/7 tanked.

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