And you may ask yourself, 'How do I work this?' And you may ask yourself, 'Where is that large computer?'FOSS desk's roundup of some of the more memorable missteps and could-have-beens from the beginnings of the microcomputer industry until today.The 32-bit era was a little different. With few notable exceptions, most contenders from earlier eras sank beneath the PC tide.
If Apple had pressed ahead with Möbius, it could have transitioned from the 68000-based Macs directly to Arm processors in the 1980s, a quarter of a century beforeMore than a decade later, unable to sell enough of its proprietary Arm desktop computers to keep its unique platform alive, Acornsaid:"BeOS is a very portable OS. The port from PowerMac to Intel x86 took only a couple of weeks.
DESQview itself also led to what could have been a sea change in the PC industry, if Quarterdeck had moved faster. For years, the company talked about its future product,, which turned DOS into a networked, X11-driven GUI OS. DV/X moved PCs in the direction of UNIX workstations. It could run UNIX apps in a DOS window, but also let UNIX machines on the same network run DOS in a window – hosted, remotely, on real x86-32 hardware.