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You would have relegated Dell and Gateway 2000 to second tier-PC clone maker along with all the other PC clone makers, below Compaq, since their OEM version of
by canucker2016 1y ago
You would have relegated Dell and Gateway 2000 to second tier-PC clone maker along with all the other PC clone makers, below Compaq, since their OEM version of MS-DOS wouldn't get the Compaq tweaks necessary to be 100% IBM PC compatible (unless Microsoft or these non-Compaq OEMs duplicated Compaq's compatibility work).
- ryao 1y agoThey could have licensed Compaq’s version. By the way, the Gateway 2000 was a machine by Gateway, not a vendor.
- canucker2016 1y agoNo. Gateway 2000 was the actual name of the company at that time. They dropped the 2000 close to the year 2000. I assume it wouldn't look good for a forward-looking tech company to be named for a year in the past. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_2000
- ryao 1y agoWell, that explains why I had thought it was a very popular model. :/