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by dleslie 2867 days ago
Whither the software and peripherals?

The failure of non-PC-clones in the 80s/90s is mostly attributable to those two deficiencies, I think.

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Well the early models were available with a BSD-derived UNIX, so software was available, at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_iX