A bit of nostalgia

Amarnath S

Reminds me of the term "IBM PC Compatible". IBM - we understood, was the name of a company. PC - we thought we understood this :-) Compatible - never really understood this - what was it compatible with?

Lost User

With IBM PCs. Isn't it obvious? (I guess this was claimed by IBM PC clones?)

Amarnath S

Now, it seems obvious. But, back then, especially for a student like me, it wasn't obvious.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Avijnata wrote:

IBM - we understood, was the name of a company

Was?! IBM established at 1911 (with root back to 1885!) and still kicking...

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Amarnath S

Sorry, is. From an Indian perspective, IBM was in India during the seventies, when I was too young; and was made to close shop in India in 1977. IBM came back to India around mid-nineties via a company called TISL (Tata Information Systems Services), before coming back again as IBM itself. So, during 1990, IBM was a was in India.

kakan

A PC clone that could boot and run the very first version of "Flight Simulator". IIRC, that was the ultimate compatibility test.

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OriginalGriff

Nah...it had to run LAN Doom as well!

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

V 0

well, FYI[^] Played it, it's nice ;)

V.
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Sander Rossel

Only played parts 3 and 4. "A pirate I was meant to be, trim the sails and roam the seas!" Wonderful games :D

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Lost User

I am shaking, I am shaking! ..will be playing tonight, time to beat the swordmaster again.

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kakan

Doom didn't exist then. This was 1982 (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator[^]). According to http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom[^] , "Doom was first released on December 10, 1993"

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OriginalGriff

Real Doom players built a time machine in order to play it early... :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

kakan

So I can´t have been a real Doom player back then, I had to wait all that time. Too bad I didn't know. :-( Doom was epic, and so was its successor, Castle Wolfenstein. I didn't like to have to shoot the dog, though.

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