From: "Randy H" 

There were plenty of aftermarket printer manufacturers that worked with IBM
boxen at the time...
Documation and the Honeywell PPS come to mind....

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> Like requiring IBM printers if you wanted to print something?
>
> Geo.
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> "Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
> news:42142be6{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Even then IBM did technically reasonable things...
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>> "Randy"  wrote in message news:4212c020$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > How muich of MS's behavior today is reminiscent of IBM's back in the
>> > 80s
>> and
>> > ealy 90s under Akers?
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>> > "Tony Ingenoso"  wrote
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>> > news:42116f22{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > >
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=88655&page=1
>> > >
>> > > Interesting.  There's more than a slight whiff of
decomposition IMO.
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