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x86 and the platform around it didn't become a standard, it was _made_ one. The standard platform for PCs is WHQL Testing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHQL_T
by cwyers 6y ago
x86 and the platform around it didn't become a standard, it was _made_ one. The standard platform for PCs is WHQL Testing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHQL_Testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHQL_Testing
The only way you get a standard like that is if a really big player, in this case Microsoft, steps in and sets the rules and does the work. It's not like backwards compatibility had enough inertia to do this without having someone set the standard.
- userbinator 6y agoIt's not like backwards compatibility had enough inertia to do this without having someone set the standard. No, the PC/AT was the de-facto standard and that came long before WHQL or anything else from MS.