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Re:Would Steve Jobs have applied to Y Combinator? by jiggy2011 on Thursday June 07, 2012 @10:16AM (#4079109)
I'm guessing they are making an assumption that without Apple personal computers would never have take off and we would still be stuck in mainframe hell.
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Re:Would Steve Jobs have applied to Y Combinator? by MaysonL on Thursday June 07, 2012 @01:42PM (#4080276)
No: if Apple hadn't happened, personal computing would have flourished anyway. Intel might not have been so dominant in the µprocessor market, as the IBM PC was a panic response to Apple's success, and IBM's scientific PC, based on a Motorola 68K chip, might have taken a larger market share.

See Ted Nelson's book Computer Lib/Dream Machines for more on the state of personal computing prior to the start of Apple.

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