Tamas Rudnai wrote:
>
>
> Probably, but then there was a reason why Apple III and Lisa was
> unsuccessful after Apple II was virtually ruling the market. As far as I
> remember there were some performance issues and/or maybe compatibility as
> well with the newer Motorola CPUs?
>
> Tamas
>   
Lisa
Xerox Parc ideas on a badly designed HW with not enough resource. Stupid 
case design too.

Apple doesn't always succeed with the reality distortion field. I 
remember Pippin and Newton.

Apple II didn't rule the market in Ireland or Europe. If it hadn't been 
for visicalc, it would have died. It was quite quickly overtaken by 
competition.

The spreadsheet was main initial impetus of micro computer / PC.  A 
daisywheel was too expensive for WP to be popular.
Specialist vertical market apps based on databases.
Then Wordprocessing was 3rd really.

My 1st printer was an MX80. There was a couple of years when NLQ (Not 
really Letter Quality) Dot matrix was used by small businesses for letters.

Most people seem to use their applications full screen still, today. 
Increasing with Smaller screens. I had DR-Multidos which let you run 
many DOS apps and flip between them.





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