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Apart from transputers mentioned already, there’s https://greenarrays.com/home/documents/g144apps.php https://greenarrays.com/home/documents/g144apps.php Both
by alexisread 8mo ago
Apart from transputers mentioned already, there’s https://greenarrays.com/home/documents/g144apps.php https://greenarrays.com/home/documents/g144apps.php
Both the hardware and the forth software.
APIs in a B2B style would likely be much more prevalent, less advertising (yay!) and less money in the internet so more like the original internet I guess.
GUIs like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS
And
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_OS
Show that we could have had quality desktops and mobile devices
- PostOnce 8mo agoI want to chime in on SymbOS, which I think is the perfect reply to the GP's curiosity. https://www.symbos.org/shots.htm https://www.symbos.org/shots.htm This is what slow computers with a few hundred kB of RAM can do.
- nxobject 8mo agoThe original Macintosh had similar specs as well – 128k with a 68k clocked at ~6-7 MHz. It helps that both platforms put a significant amount of OS code in ROM.