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Tldr: PC peaked in 1986 and it's downhill from there.

• leaveyou 5y ago
  For me it was clear when they removed the Turbo switch.
  • arcturus17 5y ago
    I think some overclockers still make their own, but yes, this clearly marked the start of the decline of personal computers.
• exporectomy 5y ago
  No doubt the 286 architecture peaked back then. I guess his assumption of no backward compatibility is where it went wrong. Intel kept piling on new architectures while keeping the old for application compatibility.
  • qsort 5y ago
    This is exactly it. Also the reason why IA64 failed, and we're using amd's x86-64 instead. In more recent times, the argument is less relevant because the compatibility layer is software-side, see the mostly painless x86 -> ARM transition by Apple.
• Bancakes 5y ago
  Back when 640K was enough for anybody.
• DerekL 5y ago
  In 1992 (just over 10 years after the IBM-PC was introduced), with version 3.1, Windows started becoming much more popular than MS-DOS.
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