> Instead, I think they kept the mindset of "home computer" (I'm not sure how to put it) long after that had been in decline. I'm not sure when the turning poin

> Instead, I think they kept the mindset of "home computer" (I'm not sure how to put it) long after that had been in decline. I'm not sure when the turning point was, but it was sometime in the latter part of the 1980s. "Microcomputer", from "microprocessor" (a CPU which is one piece of silicon), is the usual term which was used from the 1970s up through the IBM PC both standardizing the term Personal Computer and wiping the field clean of everyone except Apple and a few minor players, and Apple was fairly minor compared to the IBM PC and clones thereof except in certain markets. > Anyhow - the Model 4 even had a version of Unix - Xenix from Microsoft - on the 68k; so they did do 16-bit machines for business, for a few years at least - but couldn't transition to the home market with a 16 bit machine (1000) - before the quick transition to 32-bit happened (386 and later 486). For a while, Xenix was the best-selling Unix system, but mostly because it ran on IBM PCs and PC clones during the 16-bit era, before the 80386 finally provided a system that Unix could run on without massive compromises.