Xerox, a dominant company in the 1960s, invented the graphical user interface (GUI) but failed to capitalize on it. The article explores how Xerox pioneered the technology that later companies like Apple popularized.
The Apple IIc, released in 1984, was a compact and portable version of the Apple II series. Designed as a transportable all-in-one computer, it featured a built-in disk drive and carrying handle, targeting home and educational users with its sleeker, more user-friendly design than earlier models.
The article discusses whether there were Windows 3.1 programs so incompatible with Windows 95 that patching them was pointless. It references a "permanently ineligible list" of applications that couldn't be made compatible with the new operating system.