The Texas computer massacre.
Houston-based Compaq Computer recently became the world's largest personal-computer (PC) maker—it now has a 9.5 percent market-share, according to Dataquest—and is now entering the market for larger computers. On June 27, Compaq launched a new range of computers that will compete directly with IBM'...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 332; pp. 59 - 61 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
July 2 1994
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