The result was very impressive. Not only was the Arm based computer prototype able to emulate the 6502 and 65C816 processors, it even ran Macintosh software faster than the 68000 could. Of course this had to be nipped in the bud and the project was terminated. Apple would have potentially changed the course of computing history with this innovation.
The 32-bit era was a little different. With few notable exceptions, most contenders from earlier eras sank beneath the PC tide. In the 1990s, the hitherto dull and businesslike Intel computers, which had been office equipment up until then, caught up with their rivals and added fancy graphics and multimedia features.
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