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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by jhayward on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:31AM (#20091905)
The PS2 was released in 1987, 5 years after the US antitrust suit against IBM ended, and after IBM no longer had a monopoly position in the PC market.

It was a different era and the horses had left the barn. The PS/2 was a dead end. The original PC architecture, openly evolved, is still generating hundreds of billions in revenue each year - just not for IBM.

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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by WalterBright on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @04:47PM (#20099061)
I'm still interested in a reference that says the IBM PC being open was a result of anti-trust.
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