I came from the era of the Amiga. An awesomely design personal computer for the time. It could primitively muti-task in 128K of RAM. Why? Because multi-tasking isn't hard if you get your OS and CPU architecture right to start with. I saw the dominance of the PC market, not because it was better but because it allowed different vendors to build and develop the platform. But it was the "lowest common denominator". Windows couldn't even multi-task until NT came along and the whole system had (has) such a tie to DOS it's embarrassing. And most of the world thought "this was the only way it could have happened". I know it's a different world now. And Apple have been able to stand alone in the market because of how far we have come with standards (you don't NEED to run Windows and Office) and because of all the development that has happened in the PC space (a Mac is a PC).
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