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30 Years of Personal Computer Market Share

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the counting-down-the-hits dept.

chiagoo writes "Ars Technica has a fantastic article that looks back at the most popular personal computers from the last 30 years. It covers everything from the Altair to the 8- and 16-bit eras to where we are today. A bit of a downer that they barely mentioned Linux and gave no mention to other significant OSes such as OpenBSD, but still a great read nonetheless."

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  1. Fast... like turbo button! by MarkRose · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post^WComputer!

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    Be relentless!
  2. FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol shoe THIS is a first post

  3. I remember when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...you could tell US magazines from Brit ones very easily: US mags had articles written by old greybeards who'd squandered their youth designing stuff at places like IBM, Motorola or TI, and then boring everybody by talking about it later. Oh and there were a couple of adverts; Brit magazines filled the first 120 pages before the contents index page with ads, then the next 80 pages were more ads, then they had two game reviews (usually very funny), then the last 90 pages before the advertiser index was filled with more ads. After that it was just ads.

    Note: I'm a Brit.

  4. Microsoft sucks. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    If only 20 of those 30 years didn't have to include Microsoft, computers would be pretty good today.

    Yeah, I can't pass up a chance to say that about Microsoft, because until I switched to using a Mac, I hated computers. I believe that's because Microsoft has had so many security holes, bugs, viruses, spam, malware, and other crap over the years.