canucker2016 6 days ago

You would have relegated Dell and Gateway 2000 to second tier-PC clone maker along with all the other PC clone makers, below Compaq, since their OEM version of MS-DOS wouldn't get the Compaq tweaks necessary to be 100% IBM PC compatible (unless Microsoft or these non-Compaq OEMs duplicated Compaq's compatibility work).

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ryao 6 days ago | parent [-]

They could have licensed Compaq’s version.

By the way, the Gateway 2000 was a machine by Gateway, not a vendor.

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canucker2016 6 days ago | parent [-]

No.

Gateway 2000 was the actual name of the company at that time.

They dropped the 2000 close to the year 2000. I assume it wouldn't look good for a forward-looking tech company to be named for a year in the past.

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_2000

	▲	ryao 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, that explains why I had thought it was a very popular model. :/