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There were also plenty of drawing apps, very sophisticated for that time, a poor man's mac, i've heard it being called.

It was more of a poor man’s Amiga.

It was as capable or more capable than the original Macintosh gui.

If Atari had broken through in North America like they had in Europe as business machines tech adoption would have progressed quickly.

I was randomly lucky that my Canadian 7th grade computer lab was full of them, when everyone else was in the stone ages on IBM XTs. There was a Original Mac lab too and those were archaic in comparison.

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