30 Years of Personal Computer Market Share

chiagoo writes "Ars Technica has a fantastic article that looks back at the most popular personal computers from the last 30 years. It covers everything from the Altair to the 8- and 16-bit eras to where we are today. A bit of a downer that they barely mentioned Linux and gave no mention to other significant OSes such as OpenBSD, but still a great read nonetheless."

Market share = spending money

[AFCArchvile]

A bit of a downer that they barely mentioned Linux and gave no mention to other significant OSes such as OpenBSD,

It says "market share", not "free for all".

Future Landmark

[PC-PHIX]

The year 2010, when a server is finally built that can withstand the full force exerted by "The Slashdot Effect" [wikipedia.org].

Slashdot could make BILLIONS!

[evilviper]

Article:

And an unknown college dropout named Bill Gates, together with his partner Paul Allen, wrote a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair, forming a company called Micro-Soft in the process. He would later drop the hyphen and the capital S, and make billions of dollars.

Dammit Slashdot! If you would just drop the capital S, you could be making billions of dollars too!

Ad server is slashdotted

[Animats]

The pages take ten to twenty seconds to load because "servedby.netshelter.net" is overloaded. "netshelter.net" is invoking a CGI program for every ad reference, and the Javascript seems to be delaying page rendering until the ads load.

Welcome to "Web 2.0" - now with the performance of 38K dialup.

Star Wars?

[big ben bullet]

"When IBM lost the clone battles..."

Hmmz... I thought episode II was named "The clone wars" not battles..
and what part did IBM take in it again?

Very puzzled i am, indeed...

Re:Think how different it might have been today..

[$RANDOMLUSER]

I remember Pournelle writing that if ATT bought Colnel Sanders they'd be advertising "hot, dead chicken". Always loved that line.

Re:I'm surprised

[atomic_toaster]

...which is still fine for web programmers with a Serial port.

Serial ports are so 90's; my web programmer came fully equipped with USB 2.0. However, despite the upgrades, I still have reliability issues with him, especially when the hockey game's on...