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... customers ( or third - party sup- pliers known as original - equipment manufacturers ) worry about getting the computer set up for specific applications . In this it was quite different from mainframe companies like IBM , which ...
... customers ( or third - party sup- pliers known as original - equipment manufacturers ) worry about getting the computer set up for specific applications . In this it was quite different from mainframe companies like IBM , which ...
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... customers with software as well as hardware , or for the customers themselves , who often needed to augment that software with specially designed programs of their own . Still , it wasn't long before some programmers got the en ...
... customers with software as well as hardware , or for the customers themselves , who often needed to augment that software with specially designed programs of their own . Still , it wasn't long before some programmers got the en ...
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... customers asked a lot of their computers and its programmers , yet understood little about what was really possible . " For a company trying to make money do- ing pioneering work for customers with unrealistic expecta- tions , " Fishman ...
... customers asked a lot of their computers and its programmers , yet understood little about what was really possible . " For a company trying to make money do- ing pioneering work for customers with unrealistic expecta- tions , " Fishman ...
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