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The price for an AT with 512 KB of RAM, a serial/parallel adapter, a high-
density floppy drive, and a 20-MB hard drive was well over $5,000 – but much less
than what the pundits expected.
Commondore Amiga 1000
The Amiga introduced the world to multimedia. Although it cost only $1,200,
the 68000-based Amiga 1 000 did graphics, sound, and video well enough that many
broadcast professionals adopted it for special effects. Its sophisticated multimedia
hardware design was complex for a personal computer, as was its multitasking,
windowing OS.
Compaq Deskpro 386
While IBM was busy developing (would «wasting time on» be a better phrase?)
proprietary Micro Channel PS/2 system, clone vendors ALR and Compaq wrestled
away control of the x86 architecture and introduced the first 386-based systems, the
Access 386 and Deskpro 386. Both systems maintained backward compatibility with
the 286-based AT.
Compaq's Deskpro 386 had a further performance innovation in its Flex bus
architecture. Compaq split the x86 external bus into two separate buses: a high-speed
local bus to support memory chips fast enough for the 16-MHz 386, and a slower I/O
bus that supported existing expansion cards.
Apple Macintosh II
When you first looked at the Macintosh II, you may have said, «But it looks just
like a PC. You would have been right. Apple decided it was wiser to give users a case
they could open so they could upgrade it themselves. The monitor in its 68020-
powered machine was a separate unit that typically sat on top of the CPU case.
Ne xt Ne xts t ation
UNIX had never been easy to use, and only now 10 years later we are getting
back to that level. Unfortunately, Steve Job never developed the software base it
needed for long-term survival. Nonetheless, it survived as an inspiration for future
workstations.
Priced at less than $ 10,000., the elegant Nextstation came with a 25-Mhz 68030
CPU, 8 MB of RAM, and the first commercial magnetooptical drive (256-MB
capacity). It also had a built-in DSP (digital signal processor). The programming
language was object-oriented C, and the OS was a version of UNIX.
NEC UltraLite
Necks UltraLite is the portable that put subnotebook into the lexicon. Like Radio
Shack's TRS-80 Model 100, the UltraLite was a 4-pounder ahead of its time. Unlike
the Model 100, it was expensive (starting price, $2,999), but it could run MS-DOS.
(The burden of running Windows wasn't yet thrust upon its shoulders.)

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