Microsoft OS hits the big league

摘要

In 1980 computing became available to all but the very poor. The impetus was homegrown, from a certain Clive Sinclair. In March, SSI shipped Wordperfect 1.0 for Data General minicomputers. PCW looked at the Acorn Atom in April. But the sensation was Sinclair's ZX80. It featured 1KB of Ram and Basic in 4KB of Rom, and it got kids across the UK programming.