Subj : Re: what are you dialing in with?
To   : Spectre
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Jun 11 2024 14:45:20

  Re: Re: what are you dialing in with?
  By: Spectre to Nightfox on Wed Jun 12 2024 04:26 pm

 Sp> Hmmm a 68k world? A powerPC Amiga? Shrug, I still think over all it
 Sp> would've gravitated to where it is now.  Uncle Bill mightn't have gotten

 Sp> There's not the same market for PC parts there used to be, a lot of stuff
 Sp> has just standardised and is designed into your mobo.  The only major
 Sp> considerations at present appear to be video and memory.

True.  I still like to build my own desktop PC, since I can customize it to what I want, and in some ways, having a lot of stuff on the mobo makes it simpler. I just add the processor, memory, dedicated graphics card, and 3rd-party CPU cooler if the CPU doesn't come with one, and the case, etc..  I've wondered if building your own PC would even be a thing now if Amiga or another computer brand came out on top.  It was mainly the open architecture of the IBM that allowed that to happen.  Also, it sounds like it almost didn't happen initially - I heard IBM initially tried to sue when the first clone maker reverse-engineered their BIOS to make a clone.  If another computer maker came out on top, we'd probably have to always buy a pre-made PC and customize it rather than building one with only a set of parts.

Nightfox
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