Microsoft's operating system with a graphical interface, first released in 1985. It runs most of the world's personal computers.
I think a really huge shift happened in the very late 1990s with GPU technology. And so we talked a little, or I talked a little before, about these SGI machines that were very exclusive, very hard to get access to. And now all of a sudden a Windows box with a good graphics card and a GPU could produce equivalent work.
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Right now I'm using Windows Eleven on a Dell laptop with a twelfth-generation Intel processor, which is several orders of magnitude more powerful than the TI-99/4A.
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