While IBM PCs were making waves in the West, Japan had NEC PC-98. The last of the PC-98 line ceased production in 2003. What went wrong here?
>>107987908When DOS/V added Japanese text support to any PC, the PC-98 ceased to have any advantage over countless clones.
started with microsoft's greed and US sanctions
>>107988039Maybe you're thinking of the TRON operating system.
>>107987908It was all Intel simply outcompeting NECNEC gave up even reverse engineering a P5 class CPU. All the P5 class x86 implementations were done by American startups and they didn't want to buy one. They were donezo.
Neo Geo was going strong after 2005 bro.
>>107988039Glowniggers...
>>107987908Japanese support for IBM-compatibles took away all advantages aside from the unique hardware of the PC-98.The unique hardware was made obsolete as computers got more powerful. Hell, functional PC-98 emulators already existed by 2003.It had a time and place, but technology moved on. By the time windows was dominant, there was little functional difference between an IBM-PC and PC-98 aside from being not-quite compatible, at which point you might as well just use the more widely-supported platform.
>>107987908IBM open standard of buying desktop components from 10 different manufacturers is something that we have taken for granted these days. It makes computer cheaper
>>107987908Did these ever get upgrades for Pentium and beyond?
>>107989642Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-98#Models
>>107989676>PC-9821Ra43>Celeron @ 433 MHz>24x CD-ROM drive>32 MB of RAM>8 GB hard disk>Last computer of seriesAnd the few models before it come with Windows 95 preinstalled. What sets this apart from just another wintel PC?
>>107989740Slightly different hardware - that simply meant you had fewer options of suppliers.
>>107989980Was there any reason to get a PC-98 instead of a random generic PC?
>>107990697Touhou project and probably some cool software, right? Windows didn’t run on it did it?
>>107990795That Wikipedia article says several PC-98 models shipped with Windows preinstalled. I had assumed that it was some non-PC-compatible system, but if it's running Windows it sounds pretty PC compatible, in which case it seems like just a PC with proprietary connectors.
>>107987908now this is a loading screen
>>107987908Microsoft.Japanese computer market was extremely fragmented and Microsoft was the first company that challenged it with MSX machines. Later they used this dominance to introsuce ppl to Windows.Funfact - PC98 and Win95 are partially compatible.
>>107990697PC98 was a business machine that due to it's popularity ended in hands of doujin game developers and small companies. It was spreadsheet computer that could play games.
