[RossA]

IBM PC vs. Apple's Macintosh

It took Microsoft 5 years to catch up to the Macintosh.

[staylowandkeepmoving]

Right on. If you want a great analysis of why the Wintel systems achieved dominance, read John Sculley's book, Odyssey (written when he was hot); he describes the argument he and Steve Jobs had about price points for the Mac (Sculley won).

What are you studying?

[bvw]

Zenith PC beat out by IBM PC. The Zenith had dual processors, a Z80 and a full 8086. Much better hardware and documentation too.

The original IBM PC's detestable "CGA" graphic standard beat out the advanced mix of mapped and raster color graphics that the DEC Rainbow PC demonstrated commercially. Took ten years to come back to where things could have been from the start.

Fortran 77 beat APL.

Piston gasoline engines beat out Steamers.

[xlib]

60's BeeGees vs Disco BeeGees ("Gotta Get A Message To You," "To Love Somebody" etc were great songs, but all they're remembered for is "Stayin' Alive." Yuck!

[Swordmaker]

The Commodore Amiga was far superior to either Mac or PC.