Software Development

Software Developers Stear Clear of IBM AT

from the July 15, 1985 issue of ComputerWorld magazine by Edward Warner Although the IBM Personal Computer AT was greeted by the cheers of corporate users craving speed for their spreadsheets, the machine holds other potential, particularly the ability to run programs in up to 16M bytes of random-access memory (RAM). That potential remains largely untapped, and the situation may not change anytime soon because many important software firms have held off on developing packages specifically for the AT.