but the SLT/286 was more powerful. At the close of the 1980s, Compaq continued its tradition of pushing the limits of the PC market by releasing what some consider to be the first IBM-compatible ...

IN THE BEGINNING there was the IBM PC, and it was good ... The VIS was essentially a stripped-down 286 PC running a custom version of Windows. It flopped horribly in the marketplace, and few ...

How that came to be is no secret, of course: IBM chose the Intel 8088 to power its model 5150 PC back in the early 1980s, and since it became the dominant PC platform, everyone else followed suit.