[TriLUG] What did the PS in PS/2 stand for?

[Rick DeNatale]

On 12/7/05, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:

> The original Playstation is not called PS1 except by revisionist
> historians.  This is slightly different from the IBM PS/1, which as
> discussed was produced by IBM *after* the PS/2.  It was called the PS/1
> because it reused the old ISA archictecture after the Microchannel effort
> failed to gain traction.

I' reasonably sure that Sony  came out with a PlayStation 1 (or maybe
a PS1 or a PSone, AFTER the Playstation 2. This is not to be confused
with the original PlayStation which is the only PlayStation I own.

I could be wrong though.

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Rick DeNatale

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