Re:Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock
by aidenn0 on Monday August 25, 2025 @01:00AM
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> They got incredibly lucky with IBM choosing the 386 for the PC platform...
1. IBM picked the 8088 for the PC platform. This was part luck, part Motorola being too slow to market with the 68k.
2. The first PC with an 80386 was made by Compaq, not IBM.
3. A big part of what held OS/2 1.x back was IBM insisting on it working with the 80286, which made properly supporting DOS programs challenging. OS/2 2.0 came out 6 years after the first 386 based machine from Compaq.
1. IBM picked the 8088 for the PC platform. This was part luck, part Motorola being too slow to market with the 68k.
2. The first PC with an 80386 was made by Compaq, not IBM.
3. A big part of what held OS/2 1.x back was IBM insisting on it working with the 80286, which made properly supporting DOS programs challenging. OS/2 2.0 came out 6 years after the first 386 based machine from Compaq.