21 Apr
1999
21 Apr
'99
3:42 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
I'd have to agree with this. PCs were designed for business, so they lagged
far behind other machines in things home users tended to want - color,
sound, and so on. About the turn of the decade was when they really started
to become dominant in the home computing world, wrenching it away from the
C64/Amiga/Mac/Apple2/Atari/etc market. The last survivor was the Radio Shack
Color Computer - sort of appropriate, since they marketed the first personal
computer in the TRS-80 model 1. Note that this also is strictly the US market.
The world market is quite different and I know zip about it.
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Jim Strickland
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I suppose that's true, Hans, BUT, in1982,
there were few other processors
than the 6502 and Z-80 in popular use, with the exception of the 8080A and
the 8085, of course.
In it's first couple of years, the IBM PC (introduced 8/11/1981) sold
enough machines that surely the 8088 could have been said to be in popular
use!
[this is a comment about market, NOT an endorsement]
The majority of home computers, though, used one
of
these two, at that time. Several years later, we found the 6510 and 6809 in
commercially interesting applications, but not for as long a period as the
Z-80 and 6502. These two had a life of nearly ten years before the IBM-PC
and its clones wrenched the home computer market from their grasp.
10 years?
Does this imply that the PC was not the dominant force until the end of
the 80s?
[this is a comment about market, NOT an endorsement]