[Info-vax] Info-vax Digest, Vol 78, Issue 28

[Jojimbo]

I worked for several years with my boss who had been Michael Dell’s classmate. UT Austin. The way he explained it was that Dell had started his business by basically doing nothing except opening the Intel catalog. Motherboard, Processor, Memory, Disk, Mouse.  Check OK.  

Then he got orders from his dorm room and shipped them out. The beauty of this plan was that there couldn’t be any fingerpointing amongst the vendors. They were all Intel.