Comment by stmw

No dispute on the facts about Sun etc. "more than a year before" is not a lot of time in hardware launches, and that was a very dynamic time. Regarding Sun, some good old HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29082150

But the alternate computer history is interesting to imagine, could have been via x86 or PowerPC with IBM or something else. Same with Be.