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0 pointspjmlp6mo ago0 comments

PC flourished, because IBM lost control, what is happening with ARM is basically what every other 8 and 16 bit home computers used to be.

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p_l6mo ago

And part of the lost control was emulating IBM PC enough that software that ignored sanity and did weird things to hardware or assumed certain behaviours worked even on clones and most importantly, upgrades

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0 pointspjmlp6mo ago0 comments

PC flourished, because IBM lost control, what is happening with ARM is basically what every other 8 and 16 bit home computers used to be.

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p_l6mo ago

And part of the lost control was emulating IBM PC enough that software that ignored sanity and did weird things to hardware or assumed certain behaviours worked even on clones and most importantly, upgrades

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