How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry

Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry by leoc on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @08:10PM (#9933215)

Well, there was Novell NetWare some time before Windows for Workgroups arrived. Of course the crushing of NetWare was a major campaign in Microsoft's war for dominance over personal computing.

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Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry by tsotha on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @08:41PM (#9933298)

Sure, but NetWare was the industrial strength solution. It was too expensive to set it up at home or at a company with fifty employees.

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Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry by rasz_pl on Thursday July 23, 2015 @12:37AM (#9934009)

They pioneered cheap network hardware with NE2000.

Who would be crazy enough to network 50 endpoints over slow serial daisy chain? Arcnet was another story, but not significantly cheaper.

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