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In my neck of the woods these were very hard to come buy. During the 80s, people mostly had 8-bit micros at home. And Windows 3.1 only appeared in the 90s. AT
by forinti 4y ago
In my neck of the woods these were very hard to come buy.
During the 80s, people mostly had 8-bit micros at home. And Windows 3.1 only appeared in the 90s.
ATs and even XTs could have handled a GUI well. It wasn't for lack of memory or processing power.
The PC was stuck with a really subpar OS for about a decade.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoApparently there were a lot of options, but the folks building them made the then common mistake of exorbitant pricing. A razor/razorblades model would have been more successful. See Visi-On, etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32092804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32092804 There's also the issue that MS would actively sabotage any competitor that gained a toehold.