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The greatest thing that helped the thriving of PCs was standardization first driven by IBM and after that by Intel.
by DeathArrow 2y ago
The greatest thing that helped the thriving of PCs was standardization first driven by IBM and after that by Intel.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoMicro Channel was the IBM choice that forked universes. I guess our PCI universe is okay.
- flopsamjetsam 2y agoMCA always felt like a way for IBM to bring back control to itself to me. PCI was such a nice improvement to usability e.g. auto-IRQ assignment (no more jumpers), as well as speed and bus mastering.
- sillywalk 2y agoI think it was Compaq reverse-engineering the IBM PC BIOS that lead to open standards on PCs (and clones).