27 Sep
2000
27 Sep
'00
1:08 p.m.
Phase III -
Characterized by the start of LSI. Hardware costs were
still high and operating systems were mostly bundled. Volume was
still low in most cases - up to about 1985 - IBM was still the major
player, but no longer so dominant
MSDOS wasn't available separate from the hardware until much later.
I remember running a copied version of DOS on a brand new '286 clone
I built from parts purchased from Jameco. I searched high and low,
and couldn't find MSDOS unbundled anywhere. This was about a year or
so after the '286 was released (early '90s? I don't remember)