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Y'all remember shareware Doom on an IBM 486DX?

Welp, my back hurts!

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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

Dang. I remember when "IBM Compatible" was normal terminology.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Or “clone”

Lots of early PCs were termed “IBM clones”.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

The fact that we even call them PCs is mainly down to the IBM PC (they didn't invent the term but I think they popularised it)

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