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What Happened To IBM PCs? Why The Company Stopped Making Them (www.bgr.com)
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Y'all remember shareware Doom on an IBM 486DX?

Welp, my back hurts!

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[โ€“] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Current Windows (the NT line) has fuck all to do with Apple. It's DEC Alpha through and through as MS hired the core Alpha team when they were laid off.

Mark Minasi wrote an article about it in 1998, and showed exactly how NT is Alpha.

And DEC predates Apple by years.

[โ€“] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Er... who was talking about current Windows?

I was talking about the original, which absolutely ripped off the GUI from the early Mac OS. That's the whole point when it relates to IBM at that stage-- they lost the hardware, OS-GUI and software battles to everyone else, spelling their doom.