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From that perspective, you are right. However I think Christensen's perspective still holds if you go back further. When the first semi-mainstream GUI-based PC
by sirkneeland 13y ago
From that perspective, you are right. However I think Christensen's perspective still holds if you go back further.
When the first semi-mainstream GUI-based PC (the 128k Mac) came out, the limitations of hardware at the time meant the thing was a mass of clever (perhaps genius) hacks to get the whole OS to run in with such limited RAM and CPU constraints.
Apple simply needed to be making the hardware and software to tweak them enough in tandem to work together.
As CPUs and memory improved, you had enough leeway so everything didn't have to be custom-engineered down to every 1 and 0 and bit of silicon to work well enough, and so the PC market entered the "modularized" phase.