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What Happened To IBM PCs? Why The Company Stopped Making Them (www.bgr.com)
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Y'all remember shareware Doom on an IBM 486DX?

Welp, my back hurts!

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago

Er... who was talking about current Windows?

I was talking about the original, which absolutely ripped off the GUI from the early Mac OS. That's the whole point when it relates to IBM at that stage-- they lost the hardware, OS-GUI and software battles to everyone else, spelling their doom.