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I find it interesting how similar the Altair and the PC ended up being, at least conceptually. Hell, the S100 bus may have been even more successful for a time

• rwallace 8y ago
  Much more so! The inventor of the Altair was unhappy when that expansion bus took on a life of its own and became a major industry standard, but by that time he couldn't stop it, and yes, that piece of history rhymed a few years later with the IBM PC. Appropriately, the operating system that ended up being associated with the S-100 bus was CP/M, the precursor of MS-DOS.