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The succint answer would be they were choked out of existence in the office market by IBM.

They had an early lead and captured word processing, IBM had big iron and expanded down to personal computers suitable for office word processing and had the big government | military | banking contracts to force through sweeter deals on the desktop range as a "one shop" solution for everything computing related.



Does that mean the trademark is now free and I can start selling Wangs to people?


Hmm, dunno, we've got those in town: https://youtu.be/a64XBWtGuGc?t=39




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