But for short-sightedness at DEC and Xerox, things might have been different indeed. Unfortunately, DEC hamstrung their micros until it was too late, and Xerox'

But for short-sightedness at DEC and Xerox, things might have been different indeed. Unfortunately, DEC hamstrung their micros until it was too late, and Xerox's pie-in-the-sky machines at PARC were expensive enough that their real-world offering was the 820, a me-too 8-bit CP/M system that came out just in time to be stomped by the PC.