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Agreement IBM had to make with the DoJ/etc in the 80s to open the PC platform to avoid antitrust prosecution. That was the key event.
by treyd 5mo ago
Agreement IBM had to make with the DoJ/etc in the 80s to open the PC platform to avoid antitrust prosecution. That was the key event.
- mikestew 5mo agoI would argue that the key event was Columbia Data Products’s clean room implementation of the BIOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Data_Products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Data_Products That, and I’m pretty sure the DOJ had ended the antitrust suit (which was about bundling) by the time the PC was released.