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It's not the instruction set - it's the IBM PC-compatible standard that gave us our golden era of desktop computing. Standard bootloaders, standard ports, stand
by dTal 5y ago
It's not the instruction set - it's the IBM PC-compatible standard that gave us our golden era of desktop computing. Standard bootloaders, standard ports, standard keyboard layouts. We owe it so much.
- ddingus 5y agoYes, I agree and just made the reference off hand. We do! [Looks over at Apple //e and IBM XT] We need another open effort. Soon.