> I thought it was a truism in tech that monocultures are a bad thing? There were so many benefits to the PC compatible/DOS monoculture in computing. Competiti

> I thought it was a truism in tech that monocultures are a bad thing? There were so many benefits to the PC compatible/DOS monoculture in computing. Competition drove down prices, the need to be compatible meant that many new advancements were done in a standardized way, and everybody got a flourishing software ecosystem to use. Monocultures come with _tradeoffs_, but you could argue that without a few of them coming along at the right time, computers would be way behind where they are now.