[garbagecoder]

I think he also missed the fact that Windows NT came from VMS, not unix. The article needed an editor for sure.

I think your point rings true, there are always these platform wars. But there is much more ease of interoperability now. Even reading a 5.25" disk on a different system was sometimes impossible, lots of things like that. Keyboards and monitors had different connectors.

When Apple went to USB it was like a miracle. Circa.. 1995? Maybe with the iMac.

[p_l]

iMac was the one with usb replacing serial, parallel, ADB and floppy with built in cdrom and usb.

This meant some issues that were quite complained about, because at its release in 1998 the only way to export data was over network (or IrDA). USB Mass Storage was supported starting next year, and pendrives debuted in 2000.