Comments on: How a Microsoft product from June 1979 led to the IBM PC https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-a-microsoft-product-from-june-1979-led-to-the-ibm-pc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-a-microsoft-product-from-june-1979-led-to-the-ibm-pc David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: PM https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-a-microsoft-product-from-june-1979-led-to-the-ibm-pc/#comment-57093 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:17:28 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=35255#comment-57093 In reply to neo.

8086 was older 1-st gen chip, and 80286 was newer, 2nd gen chip , as simple as that

]]> By: neo https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-a-microsoft-product-from-june-1979-led-to-the-ibm-pc/#comment-57089 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 01:45:51 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=35255#comment-57089 why’s the 8086 limitations of 640k/1mb but 80286 is 16mb?

]]> By: neo https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-a-microsoft-product-from-june-1979-led-to-the-ibm-pc/#comment-57088 Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:32:57 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=35255#comment-57088 IBM to use the upcoming Motorola 68000 processor and Xenix, Microsoft’s Unix, as the operating system. The result would have been more powerful than the 5170 PC/AT that IBM shipped in 1984.

is Motorola 68000 processor more powerful than the i286?

]]> By: Milan https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-a-microsoft-product-from-june-1979-led-to-the-ibm-pc/#comment-56506 Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:37:49 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=35255#comment-56506 What is funny in whole article is suggestion that Bill Gates gave some advice to IBM.
Bill Gates, through whole his life, just copy cat other works and try to use it to imprison users by any means to him / Windows. Starting with APIs, over document formats and protocols…

William Bill Lowe, father of IBM, tell us completely different story!

IBM called true visionar, Ted Nelson, to give them advice. Listen to William Lowe himself what Ted Nelson suggested them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kasu0BhRFGo

]]> By: Milan https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-a-microsoft-product-from-june-1979-led-to-the-ibm-pc/#comment-56505 Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:27:41 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=35255#comment-56505 “It seems like an odd thing for Gates to take credit for, especially given his famous disinterest in Commodore”
– since Bill Gates did not manage to “trick” Jack Tramiel to licence Microsoft Basic per machine but rather to make one time payment of $25.000 I guess that Bill Gates was quite angry how Jack T. do business with him.

“But suffice it to say, if Gates was willing to offer advice to Commodore, …”
– it is from horse mouth! 😉

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