Death of the IBM PC

Tom Krazit notes in Computerworld that "perhaps it isn't quite as surprising as if Ford suddenly decided to sell its Mustang sports car brand to Hyundai." Well, it is. IBM has sold its personal computer business to a Chinese company. This is the same IBM that launched the PC revolution -- and cemented Bill Gates' monopoly -- by creating the "IBM-compatible" computer based on Intel microprocessors in the early 1980s. So the death of the IBM PC, which has been long in coming, is nothing to mourn about. But it marks the end of an era nonetheless.

 Posted by glenn