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cmrdporcupine 78 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

They were distant on market tier but most importantly on economies of scale. The Intel PC market grew exponentially.

kazinator 78 days ago [–]

Sure, but the economy of scale came from the success. The first IBM PC was a prototype wire-wrapped by hand on a large perf board.

When you switched to Intel in 1992, PC's had already existed since 1981. PC's didn't wipe out most other home computers overnight.

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