25 May
2007
25 May
'07
7:19 p.m.
--- Ensor <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk> wrote:
the the 68K been
Does anyone have one of those? The Lab computer that
is...
chosen (and it was a strong rumor, particularly
after the IBM 68K-
based lab computer was announced before the
5150), it might never
>have been as successful. I'd like to think that if the 68k had been chosen
we'd have had far more
advanced PCs far quicker (I'm thinking back to the
many 68k implementations
of UNIX amongst other things). But I do take your
point about the
availability of software, let's face it, the *ONLY*
reason I switched from
my Atari ST to the PC was software.
Although....if we'd had 68k/UNIX based boxes on our
desktops instead of
8086/DOS who's to say that there wouldn't have been
a similar explosion of
software?
Well, needless to say, whatever IBM would have chosen
would have been supported. The fact that a company
like IBM got into the pc market is the reason there
was such an explosion in usage and software.
Presumably 68k software would have been much easier to
write. But where then would the Macintosh be? Or the
ST's, Amigas, Cats. Maybe they would be the
pseudo-compatibles I'd be collecting today (already
got some uh dem tho heh heh heh).
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