![]() ![]() ![]() Much like the first IBM 5150 PC built during the same time period, it allowed easier use with its superior hardware specs, and consequently, improved graphical user interfaces as operating systems were maturing to the point of just beginning to offer robust GUIs. It came equipped 5Mhz processor running on Intel’s then new 8086 ( NASDAQ: INTC) architecture. The PC-98 started as project PCX-04, NEC’s ( TYO: 6701) first venture into the 16-bit computing era. The series’ first model, the PC-9801, was released in 1982. But even as the IBM 5150 ( NYSE: IBM) was being developed in the United States, Japan was already making history with its own personal computers and the PC-98 is perhaps the most important of them all. For many the history of computers is a string of western events and discoveries, all attached to a single line that led to the development of modern PCs.
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