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[โ€“] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yup, it was fully known as IBM PS/2, for "Personal System 2". IBM wasn't happy about how the original PC system got cloned to hell and back, so they designed a more proprietary and patentable system. Suffice to say it was a massive failure, what with it being incompatible with basically all of third party hardware. But the keyboard and mouse ports were widely regarded as a good idea! (and probably not as patentable)

[โ€“] nialv7@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

IBM really loves their slashes huh.