Re: is Vax addressing sane today

On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 06:42:15 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>

I can remember Flight Simulator being used as the benchmark for
compatibility as far back as 1985. A report on a computer show

mentioned

that clone makers were demoing it running on their products.
>
This is why I feel the term “IBM compatible” was misleading, it should
have been “Microsoft compatible” from at least that point on.

 
It was IBM PC compatible, and that was not misleading, because that's
what it was about.

But then IBM came along shortly afterwards with their PS/2 range, which no
longer defined the standard for compatibility.

So at that point it was either “Microsoft compatible” or nothing.

... lots of hardware was Microsoft DOS compatible ...

Yes it was, but none of them could run Flight Simulator.