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

Welp, my back hurts!

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[-] terabyterex@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

they were not "veryuch in the home pc market" they released the ps/1 to "reenter" the home market. the ps/2 was older. and never had a 486dx 2. th ps/1 had one 486dc2. so yes its possible but tjis article is about ibm losing the home market and they lost it by then, since the ps/1 was them trying one last time to "reeneter" it.

[-] 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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