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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?

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[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The PS/2 happened and effectively killed IBM's role in the PC market. IBM shot themselves in a bad place with that. Like, the PS/2 was basically IBM's 'CED' moment in the PC space, only unlike with the CED, which straight-up killed RCA as a company, the PS/2 didn't kill IBM as a company, it just killed them in the PC space.