flappypaddle on Nostr: Yep. They went out of their way to halt the still-very-active ][ series. GemOS wasn't ...
Yep. They went out of their way to halt the still-very-active ][ series. GemOS wasn't all that bad, but due to a lawsuit, you could only run one application in the foreground at a time, which severely limited it's usability.
Windows came in and undercut Apple in the educational market (eventually), offering almost-free software to get people to try their rather awful software, and 3.11 for Workgroups really cemented Windows as having network functionality (above AppleTalk), still playing with Netware/etc, so many DOS applications worked and were easier to manage. That made it easy for them to tell the art teachers "Tough, we're moving to PC."
Windows came in and undercut Apple in the educational market (eventually), offering almost-free software to get people to try their rather awful software, and 3.11 for Workgroups really cemented Windows as having network functionality (above AppleTalk), still playing with Netware/etc, so many DOS applications worked and were easier to manage. That made it easy for them to tell the art teachers "Tough, we're moving to PC."