Previously, chipmakers had regarded computer-makers such as Dell and Compaq as their customers, and had not bothered with fancy advertising campaigns to end users.

以往芯片制造商认为像戴尔和康柏电脑生产厂家才是他们的顾客，从不曾费神想想向终端用户发起广告攻势。

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Even the mighty Compaq is emulating Dell by building some machines to order.

即使是康柏这样的大公司也在模仿戴尔建立起某种订购机制。

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One more goof: After raising $30 million in the 1988 IPO, Dell blew at least $10 million in 1989 trying to technologically leapfrog IBM and Compaq with a super-advanced computer code-named Olympic.

另一个失败：在1988年IPO中获利三千万美元后，1989年，戴尔努力以超级先进的命名为Olympic的计算机在技术上超越IBM和康柏，他花费了至少一千万美元。

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Seemingly out of nowhere they produced companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Compaq and Dell.

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Then Digital and Data General were wiped out by the likes of Compaq, Dell and Microsoft in pcs and Sun Microsystems in Unix servers.

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