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FWIW I can think of at least two non-IBM-PC compatible x86 platforms (the NEC PC-98 series, and SGI's Visual workstations) manufactured past 1996.
by ch_123 8y ago
FWIW I can think of at least two non-IBM-PC compatible x86 platforms (the NEC PC-98 series, and SGI's Visual workstations) manufactured past 1996.
- kej 8y agoTangential curiosity: what was different about them that made them incompatible?
- Narishma 8y agoThey didn't have an IBM-compatible BIOS and used a different system bus than what came to be called ISA. They also had different and incompatible video and sound hardware, among other things.
- tom_ 8y agoPsion's Series 3 was a non-PC x86 device still available in the late 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 Microsoft released a non-PC x86 device in 2001, the Xbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console)