betamaxed

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betamaxed - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Betamaxed
  
     <jargon> When a technology is overtaken in the market by
     inferior but better marketed competition.  E.g. "Microsoft
     betamaxed Apple right out of the market".  The Betamex
     videotape standard lost to VHS.
  
     (1999-01-15)