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The PC was created due to the consent decree. IBM was forced to use other people's processors, OS, hardware interfaces, etc. If it wasn't for the consent decre
by watertom 10y ago
The PC was created due to the consent decree. IBM was forced to use other people's processors, OS, hardware interfaces, etc. If it wasn't for the consent decree the world would look very different.
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y agoWe were getting personal computers one way or another, there was a growing tide of CP/M machines inching forward by 1980. The IBM label on the product of a skunkworks division in Florida just put the blessing of Mercury on that particular outcome.