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What makes the design of the IBM PC ultimately self-sufficient relative to other early designs like the Apple II, MITS Altair 8800, TRS-80, etc?
by timbit42 3y ago
What makes the design of the IBM PC ultimately self-sufficient relative to other early designs like the Apple II, MITS Altair 8800, TRS-80, etc?
- pjmlp 3y agoIt was mostly off the shelf components, except for the BIOS, hence why they were so easy to clone after Compaq's sucessful reverse engineeering of it. IBM tried to take over its lost property with the PS/2 MCA architecture, but it was largely ignored.
- timbit42 3y agoYes, but the ones I mentioned, and many others, were also all off the shelf components. Why was the IBM PC "ultimate" relative to them?