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Its crazy how much tech leapfrogged back then. In 84/85 you still have the Apple II's in play, C64/128 were still being used, the PC jr just came out, and then
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
Its crazy how much tech leapfrogged back then. In 84/85 you still have the Apple II's in play, C64/128 were still being used, the PC jr just came out, and then the Mac and later the Amiga launched (at 1/3rd the price of the Mac, no less!)
Then DOS/Windows/Intel ate everyone's lunch, yet when did Windows have parity with Amiga and Mac? 3.0 nearly 5 years later? I guess this shows first to market isn't everything. Being able to tap into all that DOS business software turned out to be a big deal, even if the Wintel product was technically behind. The Windows 3.0 product with a 386 was just hard to beat and Amiga couldn't keep up. Especially since Commodore had to wait on Motorola chips that Apple didn't want before it could even order them.
Regardless, 82-90 was an insanely innovating period, the march from the C64 to Windows 3.0 was a fun ride. It must have been very exciting, and somewhat scary, to be in the industry then.