Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems

Re:Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems by pjmlp on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @04:23AM (#42564947)

Macintosh were still black and white at the time, and really expensive, more so than PCs, a tradition that never changed.

Amiga yes, but it got the fame of only being good for people doing games, thus it had a hard time getting adoption on business offices.

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Re:Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems by kalleboo on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @05:19AM (#42565128)

Windows 2 came out in December 1987. The Macintosh II (which introduced "full" palettized 8-bit color) had already come out in March 1987.

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Re:Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems by pjmlp on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @07:52AM (#42565721)

While I stand corrected on the year being the same, there is the question of the price, which offered a 16 bit VGA, not 8 bit colour palette, at more affordable price point.

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Re:Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems by rep_lodsb on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @09:58AM (#42566361)

16-color VGA, not 16 bits (which would be 65536 colors).

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Re:Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems by bigfatkitten on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:48PM (#42597568)

And you could buy a decent car for the price of the Mac II. Base model was twice the cost of a well specced PC/AT at the time.

In terms of price it was in the same league as Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations, not the PC.

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