[opendtv] The Osborne Effect / Sometimes What Everyone Remembers Is Wrong
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:25:29 -0400
The Osborne Effect
Sometimes What Everyone Remembers Is Wrong
By Robert X. Cringely
June 16, 2005
Last week's column about Apple and Intel generated more e-mail than I
could possibly answer, so I am sorry if I didn't get to yours. Please
don't take it personally. More on Apple/Intel below, but first I must
make a correction concerning the so-called Osborne Effect, which this
column and a hundred others cited during the past week as proof that
Apple was taking a huge market risk by switching to Intel processors.
It turns out that the history we all think we remembered wasn't
exactly correct, according to Mike McCarthy, who was working at
Osborne Computer when the company folded. Mike has always been my
hero.
...
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050616.html
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