| ▲ | aidenn0 4 days ago | |
> 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. | ||
| ▲ | rbanffy 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Motorola being too slow to market with the 68k. Also Texas didn’t have a second source for the TMS9900. We definitely live in the worst possible timeline. | ||
| ▲ | popopo73 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Thank you for the clarification! | ||