vaporware
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thumb|280px|The U.S. Justice Department accused IBM of intentionally announcing its IBM System/360 Model 91 computer (pictured) nearly two years early to hurt sales of its competitor's computer.
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- product
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- Category:Vaporware
- partially coincident with
- technology demonstration
- has cause
- development hell
- different from
- vaporwave
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11 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Causes and use
- Late release
- Duke Nukem
- Early announcement
- Antitrust allegations
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
- ''Wired'' Magazine Vaporware Awards
thumb|280px|The U.S. Justice Department accused IBM of intentionally announcing its IBM System/360 Model 91 computer (pictured) nearly two years early to hurt sales of its competitor's computer.
In the computer industry, vaporware (or vapourware) is a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is significantly delayed, never released, or canceled.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “vaporware” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.