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Offline spirantho

If CBM and Atari had won.... in other words, without the ultra-fierce competition between technology developers, because they're both closed companies....

Our computers would have about 200MHz processors, about as powerful as a Celeron 300, using about 128MB RAM and about 4 Gig hard disks. Permedia-2 equivalent power for graphics cards.

The internet would be at about HTML 3 standard, no dynamic HTML, no streaming video in good quality. Broadband would be about 512KBps.

However, the operating systems would still run faster than they do today.... and computing might still be fun.
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