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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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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

PS2 was also an extreme overreaction to the IBM cloning situation, with its various "safe guards" against unauthorized replicas that made it a bitch to work on/upgrade iirc.

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