The did crash - quite regularly, but it was usually user error :)
They did also have viruses, but they were usually funny and harmless.
However, business wasn't using IBM PCs in the UK at the time. They didn't get a look in - pretty much everyone was Acorn in the UK.
My father was the FIRST major PC clone importer/builder in the UK (waaaay before Dell even got going here) and he nearly died from lack of sales a couple of times as people were either quite happy with their ancient Acorn kit or bought new Archs when they came out. The PCs of the day were a bag of shite, unreliable and unproductive and people knew it. He now sells Dell kit which is a bag of shite, unreliable and unproductive. How times change....
Unfortunately for Acorn, the tables turned as RM PLC got into the government and promoted the PC, businesses hit the Internet, Windows 3.1 came out with Winsock, Netware was usable and interoperability with the US was required regularly (which was PC all over).
Game over. Momentum destroys superiority.
As for popularity outside the UK, NL, DE and NZ had a fair amount.
They did also have viruses, but they were usually funny and harmless.
However, business wasn't using IBM PCs in the UK at the time. They didn't get a look in - pretty much everyone was Acorn in the UK.
My father was the FIRST major PC clone importer/builder in the UK (waaaay before Dell even got going here) and he nearly died from lack of sales a couple of times as people were either quite happy with their ancient Acorn kit or bought new Archs when they came out. The PCs of the day were a bag of shite, unreliable and unproductive and people knew it. He now sells Dell kit which is a bag of shite, unreliable and unproductive. How times change....
Unfortunately for Acorn, the tables turned as RM PLC got into the government and promoted the PC, businesses hit the Internet, Windows 3.1 came out with Winsock, Netware was usable and interoperability with the US was required regularly (which was PC all over).
Game over. Momentum destroys superiority.
As for popularity outside the UK, NL, DE and NZ had a fair amount.