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> Without those two there would have never been a PC in the first place. Can you clarify that statement? My memory of computing history include other types of
by JustSomeNobody 9y ago
> Without those two there would have never been a PC in the first place.
Can you clarify that statement? My memory of computing history include other types of personal computers during and around that time.
- jacquesm 9y agoYes, but the market was super fragmented with each and every platform trying to lock in their customers as much as possible. The PC changed all that by virtue of the clones, which offered compatible systems and components from a large variety of vendors. Compaq arguably was the biggest force in establishing the clone market and even though as a brand they are gone today (though some of their legacy lives on in HP's server line) the computing world would not look even close to the same without the effort of those clone manufacturers. The economies of scale engendered by the standardization of the PC platform really made things move.
- walterbell 9y agoWhat do you think of http://opencompute.org http://opencompute.org? They provide open blueprints for whitebox servers and network gear, for manufacturing by ODMs, with cloud provider purchases driving economy of scale.
- jacquesm 9y agoI really hope they will succeed but I also wished that they would have at least one product aimed at the desktop. It's understandable that they focus on the datacenter when you look at who is behind the project but one of the things that I love about Linux is that I have a degree of continuity between my desktop environment where I develop software and the servers where it all gets deployed.
- walterbell 9y agoAt least one desktop or laptop ODM would need to sign up for manufacturing the OCP desktop design. Purism is trying to open up laptop hardware. We need open specs for a NUC form factor.