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The PC platform as a whole is going through a severe case of "second system effect".

• yuhong 10y ago
  Even back in the 1990s, there was ACPI. ACPI 1.0 for example dates back to the end of 1996 (of course before then there was drafts): http://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_1.pdf http://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_1.pdf But of course ACPI took years to catch on, during which low cost PCs from for example eMachines was coming.
  • digi_owl 10y ago
    I seem to recall Torvalds having some less than kind words about ACPI.
    • yuhong 10y ago
      I know. In fact, there is a reason I wonder what would have happened if Intel bought Compaq back in 1991 with Rod Canion and Jim Harris staying on.