kaled - 12:30 am on Oct 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

Or, perhaps, we'd be years ahead...

The Commodore Amiga, released in 1985 or thereabouts, could do pretty much everything that Windows 95 could do ten years later (and with a fraction of the hardware capability). It failed due to poor marketing, poor quality hardware, and a market that just wasn't ready. (Based on the Motorola 68000 CPU, it could even emulate a PC faster than most PCs of the day! Indeed, the Acorn Risc Machine could do the same a couple of years later. It failed mainly due to appalling marketing decisions but the CPU lives on in mobile phones).

Kaled.