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Like many leading company in their prime, they spend billions on R&D (personal computer in R.S. case) only to see clones under cutting them so they never recoup their money.
The TRS-80 was called the Trash-80 for a reason. Everyone tried to make a PC about then. As soon as IBM got into the race, it was over. CPM-86 was a terrible OS.
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