A Brief History of Computing Platforms

A Brief History of Computing Platforms. Music by Nora Tagle. To read more about the background of the analysis see http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-personal-computing/

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[SporeAdeto]

iPhone, iPod and Android turbo mode activated! xD

[DCDigitalStudios]

I want to punch this person. PC means personal computer, NOT a computer running the Windows family of operating systems. This being said a Mac is technically a PC by definition.

[WolfProductions27]

@floydrose4noobs pretty sure it is not (even if it sais so): log scale means every unit equals 10^unit (14= 10^14), i don't think there are over 10^100.000 pc in the world... i don't think there are that many atoms in the universe :|

[thomasw011]

@MrFigmentofi my faith in the internet has been obliterated.

there's not even a logical debate?

[MrFigmentofi]

*reads through comments* There is no Mac vs. PC flame war in these comments! *faith in humanity has been restored*

[Psychlist1972]

If you're going to lump the various versions of the Mac together (which are not backwards compatible), and the PC from the 8088 through current chips (which are mostly, but not entirely backwards comptible), then you should have lumped C-128, PET, VIC-20, and a number of other (lower selling) models in with the Commodore 64 and just called it Commodore. Still a neat graphic.

[GodOfQwerty]

Great. Now all the hipsters are going to go out and try to by a NeXT.

[DCDigitalStudios]

@fernozzle Its the common mis-reference to a computer running the windows family of opearting systems

[floydrose4noobs]

@PJDuchesne It's a Log scale

[floydrose4noobs]

@adze1969 MS-DOS maybe?