On: Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution

[glimshe]

In the earliest days of the PC revolution, people had different, incompatible hardware and software (with the exception of the widespread MS BASIC) even if they sometimes used the same CPUs and audio/video chips. TRS-80, CoCo, MSX, C64, Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Oric, Amstrad CPC, X68000, PC-98, IBM-PC, Apple II, Mac Classic, Macintosh II, Apple II GS, SGI, Sun etc. In fact, hardware and software are a lot more homogenous now than in the beginning: 2 dominant CPU architectures (x86/64 and ARM) and 3 dominant OSs (Windows, MacOS, Linux).

[spottedmarley → glimshe]

True, but 'earliest days' and 'PC 1.0' aren't the same topic. Earliest days are mid 70's to 80's and the PC era is more like 90's and 00's

[glimshe → spottedmarley]

These were all personal computers, aka PCs. Maybe your thinking of the IBM PC.

[spottedmarley → glimshe]

So you're including TRS80 and C64 in PC1.0? Then the original post makes even less sense.