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Tangential, but I’d forgotten until this piece: I worked for a desktop publishing company in the late 80s that naturally ran on Macs. The owners decided they sh
by macintux 4y ago
Tangential, but I’d forgotten until this piece: I worked for a desktop publishing company in the late 80s that naturally ran on Macs. The owners decided they should find out what PCs could do so they ordered one and had me buy a copy of DOS.
After much frustration we discovered that we had PC-DOS but needed MS-DOS (or vice versa).
As far as I know no one got much further than installing the OS; the system seemed dramatically inferior at the time.
- tcbawo 4y agoI suppose inferior depends on what purposes they are used for. Was it worth discarding a very large potential market? Even in 1987, IBM PCs (and compatibles) had ~66% of market share, with Apple ~10%. By 1990, PCs had >80% of the market.
- rasz 4y agoIn 1987 C64 had 4x the market share of Macs :) https://web.archive.org/web/20150609094756/http://www.retrocomputing.net/info/siti/total_share.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150609094756/http://www.retroc...
- KerrAvon 4y agoI think one needs to take any assertion of Commodore’s marketshare numbers with a grain of salt — Commodore itself didn’t release numbers at the time and the numbers we hear these days all seem to be anecdotal. That said, I don’t think Macs surpassed Apple II marketshare until circa 1991 or so, so one doesn’t need to look to competitors.