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alexisreadyesterday at 7:52 PM1 replyview on HN

Apart from transputers mentioned already, there’s https://greenarrays.com/home/documents/g144apps.php

Both the hardware and the forth software.

APIs in a B2B style would likely be much more prevalent, less advertising (yay!) and less money in the internet so more like the original internet I guess.

GUIs like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_OS

Show that we could have had quality desktops and mobile devices


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PostOnceyesterday at 11:59 PM

I want to chime in on SymbOS, which I think is the perfect reply to the GP's curiosity.

https://www.symbos.org/shots.htm

This is what slow computers with a few hundred kB of RAM can do.