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		treyd 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented sh... Agreement IBM had to make with the DoJ/etc in the 80s to open the PC platform to avoid antitrust prosecution. That was the key event.

mikestew 20 days ago [–]

I would argue that the key event was Columbia Data Products’s clean room implementation of the BIOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Data_Products

That, and I’m pretty sure the DOJ had ended the antitrust suit (which was about bundling) by the time the PC was released.

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