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John Bull

In 1988, IBM tried to seize the whole PC market back and make it proprietary again.

This seemed to be the end for the PC open platform. Consensus was that you couldn't win against IBM.

Luckily for history, Compaq, and founding CEO Rod Canion, decided to try.

Read my latest longform on the fight for the soul of the PC. And how Compaq won.

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every.to · The Man Who Beat IBMCompaq’s Rod Canion broke Big Blue’s hold on the PC market—and changed computing forever
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Sean Randall

@garius absolutely fascinating. Incredible to read the genesis of so much of what we take for granted today.

Slash909uk

@garius great piece 👍👍👍
So good to be reminded about the vision of the Compaq team back then.. I had their 386 Pro in the office back in the early 90s. Weirdly we ran OS/2 on it for Spice simulation software 🤣 not Compaq DOS.

ChrisR

@garius That's interesting. Haven't read your long form yet, but it rings a bell. in the early days of PCs, just after we (SA Institute of Tech) had decided on MS-DOS rather than CP/M-86 as our OS of choice (a genuine question in those days), we bought our first pool of 10 Toshiba T300s. Excellent machines... but we soon found that they wouldn't run all "IBM-compatible" software!

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