From: nospam.Simon.Geddes@f1.n770.z708.fidonet.org   
      
     Re: Re: Jack Tramiel   
     By: Computer Nerd Kev to Andreas Kohlbach on Tue Jan 21 2020 10:17 pm   
      
    > From a customer's point of view I think you can admire Tramiel much   
    > more than Bill Gates. Tramiel used his ruthless business strategies   
    > to cut costs and therefore be able to profitably sell computers   
    > cheaper than anyone else - opening them up to some home markets that   
    > otherwise might have been priced out. Gates just did his best to   
      
   That really came across in the book I was reading. Most of Commodore thought   
   they should concetrate on high-end PET-level machines, but Jack drove the plan   
   and ambition to do the Vic as a low-cost computer for all. I'm not sure , but I   
   feel this was partly motivated by a sense of public purpose. He apparently   
   hated complex systems and rules, because this   
   is what allowed people to commit horrors like the Holocaust; he apparently   
   thought a mass spread of computers by act as a counter-weight against that.   
      
   He seems a lot more complex, interesting character than the likes of Gates or   
   the diefied (is that a a word?) Jobs.   
      
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