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Betamax vs VHS, and similarly BluRay and Netflix won eventually. (modern PCs don't use 8086 either).

• DonHopkins 3y ago
  For the same reason VHS beat Betamax, the 6809 should have won, because it had the SEX instruction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEX_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEX_(computing)
  • DerekL 3y ago
    VHS beat Betamax mainly because the cassettes were larger, allowing for longer recording time.
  • dboreham 3y ago
    I still remember chortling at that mnemonic as a teenage assembler programmer.