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ypur back hurtd? eithrr your too young to rdmrmber or your so old your brain is making stuff up. what ibm 486dx? by thr time intel released the 486dx, ibm was already replaced by clones. hp, compaq, gateway
...IBM was still very much in the home PC market when doom was released, in fact 1993 was peak PS/1 era (or PS/2 if you were deep-pocketed)...
they were not "veryuch in the home pc market" they released the ps/1 to "reenter" the home market. the ps/2 was older. and never had a 486dx 2. th ps/1 had one 486dc2. so yes its possible but tjis article is about ibm losing the home market and they lost it by then, since the ps/1 was them trying one last time to "reeneter" it.
...the PS/1 was widely available at general retail (including every sears in america) for three years by the time doom swept the shareware scene, including one model fitted with a 486DX and ten models with a 486DX2...
i looked it up. i was counting the 2168 as one model but i guess there were ten variations. but your answers dont seem real. you sound like a young person who didnt buy a pc. we didnt buy pcs from sears. are you using ai?
...my first PC ran a MOS 6502, loaded programs from a philips cassette, and used an acoustic coupler modem...
Maybe you should, your grammar is awful. Are you using your face to type?