OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21615/Dawn_of_the_Personal_Computer_from_Altair_to_the_IBM_PC Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:02:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Comment by Laurence http://osnews.com/thread?367020 http://osnews.com/thread?367020
It doesn’t matter if you’re running Windows, Mac OS, or Linux. Your machine is almost certainly using Intel chips at its core


Touch of an exaggeration there.

Nobody is going to argue that Intel don't have a major lead, but AMD's market share certainly isn't insignificant either.
Plus heaps of portable devices (from netbooks to smart phones*) run non-Intel chips (some even run non-x86 chips).
And not to meantion that games consoles are increasingly used as personal computers these days too.

* Granted smart phones aren't "PCs" in the common understanding of the term, but these days most of them have Office suites, web access (internet/e-mails), games and music players - pretty much everything that the average PC owner uses. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments Interesting, but flawed http://osnews.com/thread?367028 http://osnews.com/thread?367028 That's an interesting article, but has some gaping holes in it. Obviously, they can't list every computer, but you can't have a proper computer history without an Amiga! If they need space, they could easily remove the failed Apple III or the XT (or AT). Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mrAmiga500) Comments