Yeah, pretty sure OP's trollan with that hilariously revisionist account. IBM ferociously defended their monopoly on the PC platform in court from day 1 of cloners, tried their best after losing the Compaq "clean room" case to kill the clone market with PS/2, and after the OS/2 fiasco, gradually spiraled downhill throughout the remainder of the 90s/00s before spinning off the whole PC business to Lenovo.
Also, the initial leading candidate for the PC's CPU wasn't IBM's 801, but the M68k.
The PC turning out the way it did was obviously an accident of history at nearly every turn.
Eli Edwards
that's completely wrong. IBM never considered the m86k
Evan Campbell
Apple sent a couple engineers to buy an original IBM PC, they said it was trash, IBM squashed Apple at their own game, and Steve hackJobs admitted he was retarded closing the Apples ecosystem
The PC becoming a success may have been an "accident" but Apple being complete failures at everything but smartphones sure as fuck wasn't.
The funny thing is that Commodore and Atari probably would have done exactly that had Motorola not killed off the M86k in favor of working with IBM on POWER. Intel actually had the sense to continue supporting their CISC line while developing novel RISC (The Intel iAPX 432) designs throughout the 80s and eventually incorporating their experience in developing RISC processors back into their CISC lineup. It was certainly a much better approach than what Motorola would do and just kill off their older CISC designs because they were high off of getting to work with IBM on an architecture that would amount to a niche market segment at best
m68k still lives in embedded systems, they just stopped new designs.
Josiah Long
The annointed successor was Motorola's 88k RISC, which everyone from Apple/Atari/Commodore/etc to Sun/SGI/HP/etc were lined up behind. PPC only happened because Scully was a retarded weasel that wanted to sell Apple off to IBM, so he used Apple's pull to scuttle the Motorola team and cut a deal with IBM on promises to management of assured market dominance.
The resulting delay between killing 88k and getting PPC off the ground splintered the non-x86 platforms once largely united behind Motorola into a quagmire of competing RISCs right when Intel was at their weakest.
That has nothing to do with the 88k being late to the market. Motorola fucked over everyone. I would've sold Apple off to IBM too if I was Scully
Jayden Powell
IBM learned the hard way being noble gets you shot in the back for the heck of it.
Brandon Collins
actually it did but it did not want to use the mc68000 since it used a 16-bit data bus that would have been too expensive and the mc68008 was too new and not available in sufficient quantities, in addition to that IBM already had experience in programming x86 CPUs from previous Projects.
