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The story of Compaq #computers #history

🕥︎ - 2025-06-16
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every.to has a section called The Crazy Ones with often interesting stories from the computer history - todays story is about Compaq, how they created a clean room clone of the BIOS and made a better (more compatible) DOS than Microsoft, how they were first with the 386, and made the open standard EISA that won over IBM's attempt to close the PC-architecture down with MCA: The Man Who Beat IBM.

Worth a read.

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