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I never liked the PS/1 and PS/2 things IBM did. It seemed like an obvious attempt to try to snare customers into a closed system. I never knew however that IBM
by josteink 8y ago
I never liked the PS/1 and PS/2 things IBM did.
It seemed like an obvious attempt to try to snare customers into a closed system. I never knew however that IBM tried to snare in Microsoft too.
An interesting read for sure.
- ajross 8y agoJust the PS/2. The PS/1 arrived several years later and was an attempt by IBM to reclaim some of the ground lost to the emerging "PC clone" architecture. It was an ISA bus machine with IDE drives -- the opposite of the proprietary MCA stuff going on in the PS/2's of the era (which by this point was largely regarded as a business failure).