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3Com made an Ethernet card for the Mac in the late 80's. 3+File/Print/Share existed for the Mac as well. I knew people who worked on it. Claris Software was initially an independent company selling software for the Mac.

PowerPoint was initially Mac-only (1987). It got bought by Microsoft so they could port it to Windows.

So yeah, Macs were around, but hardly ubiquitous.




Claris was originally spun out from Apple so that MacWrite/MacDraw etc would not be seen as competing with third-party developers with an unfair first-party advantage.


> So yeah, Macs were around, but hardly ubiquitous.

And I'm not claiming they were ubiquitous, just that they weren't so niche you'd only see them in schools or on the desk of a graphic designer. They had something like a 5-10% market-share in the US. Anecdotally, that played out in my community as far as I can tell (e.g. 1 in 20 kids having a Mac at home sounds about right). You didn't have to go anywhere special to buy them, but the store might have 20-30 PC models on display with 2-3 Macs.


yeah. 5-10% sounds about right.




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