IBM clones lacked sufficient graphics capabilities to easily handle Japan's multiple writing systems, in particular kanji with its thousands of characters.
NEC succeeded in attracting third-party suppliers and a wide range of users, and the PC-98 dominated the Japanese PC market with more than 60% market share by 1991. The range of the series has expanded, and in the 1990s it was used in a variety of industry fields including education and hobbies. The PC-98 was initially released as a business-oriented personal computer which had backward compatibility with the successful PC-8800 series. While NEC did not market these specific machines in the West, it sold the NEC APC series, which had similar hardware to early PC-98 models. The platform established NEC's dominance in the Japanese personal computer market, and, by 1999, more than 18 million units had been sold. The PC-9800 series ( Japanese: PC-9800シリーズ, Hepburn: Pī Shī Kyūsen Happyaku Shirīzu), commonly shortened to PC-98 or 98 ( キューハチ, Kyū-hachi ), is a lineup of Japanese 16-bit and 32-bit personal computers manufactured by NEC from 1982 to 2000.
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