[PaulHoule]

I was looking through old computer magazines from the 1980s and thinking about my youth when there were numerous incompatible microcomputer platforms that had some popularity at some point such as

* TRS-80 Models I and III * VIC 20, C-64, C-128 * Apple II, II+, IIe, ... * CP/M systems based on the S-100 bus * IBM PC

and way too many others to mention. Eventually the PC and the Mac won out, except for a few Amiga fanatics and a specialized "workstation" marked served by vendors like Sun.

It seems the current state of things isn't nearly as fragmented as that!

[DanBC]

You had the MSX computers, but they weren't so popular. At least, not in the UK.

[hnriot]

but didn't it really just boil down to 6502 vs z80 back then? Now we have Windows vs OSX but not much has really changed.