The IBM (I've Been Mulling) PC

[Fred Cisin]

On Fri, 8 May 2009, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> The curious thing is that IBM was extremely weak when it came to PC
> software (just look how Lotus' fortunes have slid since they were
> acquired by IBM).  What  IBM-developed PC software helped the PC
> accumulate market share?  Topview?  OS/2?  I imagine that if IBM had
> acquired Microsoft, we'd all be running some flavor of Unix now.
> Maybe not a bad thing...

VisiCalc
Easy Writer
and didn't IBM sell a MICROS~1 port of Adventure? (Colossal Cave)

What more could anybody want?    (no, that WAS sarcasm)