There is some truth in saying it like that, but the reality was far muddier.
In my first job out of college as IT director at South Plains College in 1984, the school already had quite a few Commodore Pet PC computers.
Since at the time no one knew which operating system would win going forward, including me, as we bought some new PCs, I bought some DEC Rainbows - which had BOTH Z80 chips on the motherboard to run CPM and Intel 8088 chips for MSDOS compatibility.
Back then, the secretaries still loved their Pets, and I had trouble getting them to use the newer DECs, while DEC (who at the time was the 1800 pound gorilla in the minicomputer world and could very easily have parlayed that into PC dominance) wound up going down the drain and being bought up by Compaq.
I couldn’t even get our DEC sales rep to ever call me back for our measly tens of thousands of $s orders because he was so preoccupied with his millions of $s accounts. He was a real ball of fire and helpful once I could get to him, but he was like a multi million $ rock star or something he was so in demand.
So there were quite a few other players that fought and died in that early arena.
A lot like some of the obscure early tractor manufacturers in our hobby of old iron.
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