Re: Not sure why I bother
Actually until well into the '90 the PC just wasnt that fast compared to the alternatives of the time.
High cpu and fpu applications typically used the alternatives because the intel archetechure just wasnt up to it.
In actuallity MS and intel won out because of component prices, litigation from USPO patents and back room deals with government officials. With the profits they either bought up, crippled or outright destroyed their competition. Only recently have the better technologies like ARM been allowed a lookin and that was because the US lost control of their far east suppliers.
intel stopped being an asset to computing after the 8080 and Microsoft were always greedy grabbers, the latters only input to this subject was their 4k interpreter and their subsequent demands for cash in an environment where coders were proud to give the fruit of their labours away.
So no these companies did not win the home computing race by being the best system designers, they were given the prize by western governments who allowed their home grown products to be destroyed on the promise of dominion over the coming age of information.
We were all sold out by the people we elected and we all voted for the removal of privacy and security furtheris still going on today.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
