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"1986 after IBM had already won" I like your post... Just a thing: the PC architecture won, but IBM lost all control of it. They tried to take over in 1987 wi
by illys 7y ago
"1986 after IBM had already won"
I like your post... Just a thing: the PC architecture won, but IBM lost all control of it.
They tried to take over in 1987 with the PS/2 line and its MCA bus, but the clone army was strong enough to fight, and IBM progressively got out of the PC market... until the sales of their hardware divisions: printer division (Lexmark, 1991), desktop and laptop division (Lenovo, 2005). I don't remember for the PC-based servers, but certainly gone also.
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoI like to think of it like this -- before the PC we had CP/M and 8080/Z80 machines, and it was a fairly open if not fully standardized ecosystem. IBM muscled into that market and displaced it because they were close enough to those systems to not be too alien, but also sufficiently better to get people to switch and to attract new users. Plus their name and marketing advantages. But in the end the market and community won out and pushed back into something fairly close to the original CP/M ecosystem, and we got the world of clones.