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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by darkwater on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @04:32AM (#37233289)
> Apple went all in on USB with the iMac in 1997 well before PCs were completely onboard.

"PCs" were using either parallel or serial ports, in addition to the PS/2 ports for mice and keyboards. None of them were proprietary or if they were, they were widely used so basically standard. USB ports were added easily as expansion cards on those PCs (TBH I don't recall if it was the case already in 1997, don't remember owning any USB peripheral back then)

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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by scarface_74 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @05:11AM (#37233522)
What’s your point? Do you really think that Apple should have used PS/2?
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Re:The first conformant M1 GPU driver by darkwater on Thursday August 24, 2023 @02:58AM (#37245855)
My point is that PCs already had perfectly standards for cheap peripheral communication, so there was less pressure to upgrade to USB. I remember the "PC2000" slogan that aimed at having USB-only PCs by 2000, it probably took 3-4 extra years.
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