@cstross

The article to which that picture and the related one on the front cover (the same woman seemingly impressing Toyah Wilcox, looking over her shoulder, by using a monitor in portrait orientation as a tanning bed to turn her chest bright orange) belongs has some wild but not *entirely* off predictions.

IBM will win the standards war, with Token Ring and two things that fell by the wayside so thoroughly that I've never encountered them even on OS/2 or PC-DOS.

UIs will employ dynamic function keys, have context-sensitive help, be voice-driven, and will 'eliminate the need for a mouse to always be present to use the system'. (Hey, Cortana! Did that come true?)

MS-DOS will be rewritten in C and become capable of running #Unix programs alongside MS-DOS ones.

And everyone will need a VT-100 (sic!) terminal emulator on their PCs.

#UnixWorld #DECVTs #TerminalEmulators #ComputingHistory #retrocomputing #xterm