X86 Virtualization on other architectures

And then IBM themselves were immediately blown the fuck out by various cheapo clones, it is really hilarious when you think about it.

IBM wanted to abandon the PC for their new PS/2 system, while the market said "nah, we wanna stick to PC now, be it with or without you IBM".

Apple existed, so that's wrong. But everyone in business world standardised on IBM PC because "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", and also it had Visicalc. But it was expensive compared to other computers (except Apple Mac and actual Unix workstations). Even some 8-bit computers had better graphics and sound capabilities.
Anyway, they pushed the shitty Win95 hard and OS/2 didn't make it despite being much better. It's like they settled on the worst possible platform.

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Wrong bro. The NT kernel is the best possible platform and when it got 95's UI and Plug and Play and DirectX the competition was shut what they call the fuck down for good. Linux is still Le Resistance with curly mustaches. OSX doesn't pay the bills.

It was in 2001 with XP that NT and 9x were completely merged, and XP was mature by SP2 in 2004 (reflecting this, Microsoft reset its lifecycle so its mainstream support lasted til 2009 and extended support til 2014, rather than 2006/2011 as originally planned). Still, only a few years after many if not most good things about NT5 were thrown away with Vista, and a de-evolution (somewhat alleviated by 7, but just temporarily) began.
To keep living in interesting Zig Forums years one would need to go from Dec 31, 2006 back to Jan 1, 1990.

Sure, that's fine. I'd just stock up on Amiga 3000's and never touch a PC again.

Raycasting "2.5D" 3D graphics like Wolf/Doom were basically impossible on Amiga/Atari due to their "planar pixel" video chipsets. Great for 2D, but "chunky pixels" were the only way to go for 3D.

I believe this is from a time when Copy Protection used to fuck with floppy discs hard, making them unusable much of the time, to the point where a lack of copy protection was a feature.

Because that was the time when idiots started buying computers.