As a concrete example, the local indoor upscale mall used to sell absolutely everything in the early 80s, like a giant department store. So you can take a teenage son to the mall in the 80s and drop him at Radio Shack to look at computers, video games, scanners, ham radio, stereos, speakers, car audio... but the mall has since converted into 95% womens designer fashion and 5% food court, so the Radio Shack has to switch to selling cell phones to women if they don't want to close. As one of the few non-womens fashion stores left in the mall, in the long run, closing is inevitable, and as a stand alone store they can't compete with the giant stand alone Best Buy store, so they're kind of doomed.
I had a model 3 and several coco models including a complete OS-9 system. I never owned anything as nicely designed or as technologically advanced as OS-9 until linux in the early 90s. There's a rather optimistic assumption that technology only moves forwards, but the msdos era wasn't that long ago and provides a counterexample.
As a concrete example, the local indoor upscale mall used to sell absolutely everything in the early 80s, like a giant department store. So you can take a teenage son to the mall in the 80s and drop him at Radio Shack to look at computers, video games, scanners, ham radio, stereos, speakers, car audio... but the mall has since converted into 95% womens designer fashion and 5% food court, so the Radio Shack has to switch to selling cell phones to women if they don't want to close. As one of the few non-womens fashion stores left in the mall, in the long run, closing is inevitable, and as a stand alone store they can't compete with the giant stand alone Best Buy store, so they're kind of doomed.
I had a model 3 and several coco models including a complete OS-9 system. I never owned anything as nicely designed or as technologically advanced as OS-9 until linux in the early 90s. There's a rather optimistic assumption that technology only moves forwards, but the msdos era wasn't that long ago and provides a counterexample.