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The timeline here seems quite contracted. Windows PCs started to really sell after launch of 3.0 and the PCs with that did not even have CD-ROM drives by defaul
by Maakuth 4y ago
The timeline here seems quite contracted. Windows PCs started to really sell after launch of 3.0 and the PCs with that did not even have CD-ROM drives by default, let alone DVD. I would say DVD drives started to be a norm at least a decade after the rise of commodity PCs, if you count from Windows 3.0 launch in 1990. And in the PCs that first shipped with DVD drives, the CPUs were not powerful enough to decode DVD video in real time so accelerator cards (and their crummy software) were needed, keeping the appeal limited.