In 1997, NEC PC-9801 abandoned compatibility with the PC-98 and released the PC98-NX series based on the PC System Design Guide.
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31 Facts About NEC PC-9801
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NEC PC-9801 did not have a presence in the consumer market, and its subsidiary, New Nippon Electric, had limited success with consumer products.
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Nishi suggested to Hamada that NEC PC-9801 must have purchased the same amount of Microsoft's product as it corresponded to the license fee, and N88-BASI must show copyright notification for both Microsoft and NEC PC-9801.
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NEC PC-9801 introduced it as an intelligent terminal or a workstation and was distinguished within personal computer lines.
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In December 1983, Ouchi decided that NEC PC-9801 would consolidate their personal computer business into two divisions: NEC PC-9801 Home Electronics to deal with the 8-bit home computer line, and Nippon Electric's Information Processing Group to deal with the 16-bit personal computer line.
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NEC PC-9801 permitted software companies to bundle a subset of MS-DOS 2.
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In 1987, NEC PC-9801 announced one million PC-98s were shipped, and about 3, 000 software packages were available.
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NEC PC-9801 focused heavily on financing advertisements and exhibitions, from in the 1970s, to over in 1985.
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NEC PC-9801 did not expect it to become the first successful laptop computer.
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NEC PC-9801 understood, despite difficulties, that the PC-98 needed a new custom chipset to make the motherboard smaller.
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NEC PC-9801 countered that the PC-286 model 0 lacked compatibility with the PC-98.
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In November 1992, NEC PC-9801 introduced a mid-range Windows PC, the PC-9821 which contained an Intel 386SX processor, a CD-ROM drive, 16-bit PCM audio playback, MS-DOS 5.
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NEC PC-9801 had outsourced manufacturing of motherboards to Taiwanese companies such as ECS and GVC.
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In 1997, NEC PC-9801 introduced the PC98-NX series as a main personal computer line that conformed to the PC System Design Guide and were IBM PC compatible.
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NEC PC-9801 announced that the PC-98 would be discontinued in 2003.
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In 1993, NEC PC-9801 introduced a 2D Windows accelerator card for PC-98, called the Window Accelerator Board, which employed a S3 86C928.
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Also, NEC PC-9801 had strong sales in the enterprise market, but Epson did not.
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Nikkei Personal Computing magazine reported in 1992 that "NEC PC-9801 has various opinions inside the company about the future PC-98, and it is doubtful whether the PC-98 will continue to be the domestic standard.
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An executive of Sanyo said, "NEC PC-9801 paid far more attention to its copyright than we had imagined.
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Journalist explained in 1988 how NEC PC-9801 established the nation of Japanese personal computers:.
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Shunzo Hamada of NEC PC-9801 thought the biggest reason for the success of PC-98 was that NEC PC-9801 could get software companies to cooperate.
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NEC PC-9801 said, "Third-party suppliers of Japanese PCs had already grown up to a certain extent.
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Since 1982, NEC PC-9801 had four personal computer lines, and they covered a wide price range, similar to IBM's mainframe business.
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However, NEC PC-9801's computers had poor backward compatibility and as such was criticized by users and software developers.
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NEC PC-9801 encouraged third-party developers as IBM did for the IBM PC.
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Kou guessed that NEC PC-9801 avoided releasing an IBM compatible PC because the company was proud of developing an original mainframe.
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NEC PC-9801 felt the PC-98 was an "ordinary" 16-bit personal computer, but it had plenty of games because it did not deny the playability.
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NEC PC-9801 concluded that the actual value of personal computers must be found by not sellers but consumers.
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NEC PC-9801 believed most programmers learned computer programming on the PC-98 at that time.
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