>The story of Wozniak is funny because he was a genius at putting together things like video and drive controllers out of discrete parts but he did not make the transition to the ASIC age.
I think that's astute, although his stuff was eventually incorporated into ASICs by others.
> In an alternate timeline the //gs could have taken the place of the Macintosh
ProDOS instead of MS-DOS as a basis for everyone's personal computing experience would be a real trip.
But I agree with you: Apple ceded the entire PC business market to IBM, and that didn't need to happen. IBM would have taken a big chunk of it no matter what -- some people were waiting for them -- but Apple could have done much better with an improved Apple II lineup circa 1981.
I think that's astute, although his stuff was eventually incorporated into ASICs by others.
> In an alternate timeline the //gs could have taken the place of the Macintosh
ProDOS instead of MS-DOS as a basis for everyone's personal computing experience would be a real trip.
But I agree with you: Apple ceded the entire PC business market to IBM, and that didn't need to happen. IBM would have taken a big chunk of it no matter what -- some people were waiting for them -- but Apple could have done much better with an improved Apple II lineup circa 1981.