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0 pointsDespegar7y ago0 comments

The GUI is not something I'd break out separately from the PC. And the internet is something that massively improved the utility of PCs and increased demand for them, it wasn't something that was going to replace it.

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philwelch7y ago

> And the internet is something that massively improved the utility of PCs and increased demand for them, it wasn't something that was going to replace it.

No, it just devastated the market for native PC applications.

iainmerrick7y ago

The GUI is not something I'd break out separately from the PC.

Why not? The PC (and I’d include things like the Apple ][ and C64) was a legitimate success before GUIs took off. The GUI was a separate step, also hugely important.

And ~1980 and ~1990 are reasonable dates for when personal computers and Windows took off, give or take a few years.

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