Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Segher Boessenkool <segher_at_kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:21:35 -0600
Message-ID: <20190108212134.GN14180@gate.crashing.org>
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 12:48:49PM -0600, Jim Brain wrote:
> On 1/8/2019 12:34 PM, Thom Cherryhomes wrote:
> >...and pray that it doesn't balkanize into the hell spawn marketing 
> >nightmare that was the PS/2...
> 
> I implored folks to not demonize engineers.  I should also note, though, 
> that engineers are not above scrutiny and critique.
> 
> I choose to believe, though, that the PS/2, like the Plus/4, was 
> designed before the engineering team got involved, and the engineers 
> just lost the fight...

That, or PS/2 just is second-system syndrome.


Segher
Received on 2019-01-08 23:01:18

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