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by relaxing 712 days ago
Well this just isn’t true. You can’t take the release dates of those OSes and claim everyone had fancy GUIs starting then.

Mac was always a tiny fraction of the market. No one used Windows 1.0. High end UNIX workstations were extremely rare.

What was common was DOS, the other home micros, and dumb terminals. All black background.