Reply 60 of 68, by rmay635703
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It’s unfortunate that Mr. Bios never fixed ps2 bios to actually be open, available and fully upgradable
VivienM wrote on 2023-09-09, 17:08:And the trauma from IBM's early-90s near-death-experience also caused them to stop to want to invent new things. e.g. why didn't IBM invent, say, a PalmPilot or a BlackBerry? Certainly fits in with their traditional business focus, but they haven't really created any new platforms since, oh, the AS/400?
They did, IBM made a 90’s era XT class smartphone.
Ironically it failed due to a lack of data connections.
It had to use 1st Gen cell data and the wireless providers of that era while initially excited
Quickly had no desire to provide enough data for it to work.
IBM of that era already had wireless forklift mounted terminals with a barcode scanner and JDE, if they would have done more market research they would have understood that their nifty widget could have been used freely in open campus environments with the proto wireless standards used in large facilities providing messaging and MES access nearly a decade before anything similar was in common use.