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Yes, RMX. Using a 2020 lens (pre-PC 80s were the Wild West, not diminishing any engineering effort there) the systems were straightforward. When PCs came about and everyone else was making mostly desktop software, all the real value (apps & data) remained from the very beginning “in the cloud”. It would be hard to predict that model would be exactly what everyone was clamoring for 30 years later.


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