My aim was just to point out that there once was a time and an age before the x86 became ubiqutous,
Yes, when 8 bit chips like the 6502, Z80, and 6809 were king (which BTW, most of those 8 bits system uses BASIC, licensed from Microsoft).
Only when whitebox PC clones became popular in the home did the 8-bit systems (and thier short lived 16 bit successors) die off.
