IBM's PC division floundered for years after the PCjr proved too expensive and its new OS was nothing compared to Windows, allowing Lenovo to buy IBM in 2004.
Current Windows (the NT line) has fuck all to do with Apple. It’s DEC Alpha through and through as MS hired the core Alpha team when they were laid off.
Mark Minasi wrote an article about it in 1998, and showed exactly how NT is Alpha.
I was talking about the original, which absolutely ripped off the GUI from the early Mac OS. That’s the whole point when it relates to IBM at that stage-- they lost the hardware, OS-GUI and software battles to everyone else, spelling their doom.
Current Windows (the NT line) has fuck all to do with Apple. It’s DEC Alpha through and through as MS hired the core Alpha team when they were laid off.
Mark Minasi wrote an article about it in 1998, and showed exactly how NT is Alpha.
And DEC predates Apple by years.
Er… who was talking about current Windows?
I was talking about the original, which absolutely ripped off the GUI from the early Mac OS. That’s the whole point when it relates to IBM at that stage-- they lost the hardware, OS-GUI and software battles to everyone else, spelling their doom.