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Tech Nostalgia: A Computer Needs an OS Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle (Premium)

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The first personal and home computers booted into a ROM, or read-only memory, that usually consisted solely of an on-chip BASIC interpreter, typically made by Microsoft. That was minimally acceptable for the software developers and other enthusiasts and early adopters who constituted the market for these devices in the 1970s. But for personal computing to enter the mainstream, these machines would need to become more sophisticated and more usefu…

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Tech Nostalgia: A Computer Needs an OS Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle (Premium)

The first personal and home computers booted into a ROM, or read-only memory, that usually consisted solely of an on-chip BASIC interpreter, typically made by Microsoft. That was minimally acceptable for the software developers and other enthusiasts and early adopters who constituted the market for these devices in the 1970s. But for personal computing to enter the mainstream, these machines would need to become more sophisticated and more usefu…

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thurrott.com broke the news in 2 days ago on Thursday, February 20, 2025.

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