- yeh. I was in the computer industry when all this was at its height. We were using AutoCAD v2.1 on DOS AT with coprocessor that wasn't even installed on the motherboard correctly! The big deal was redrawing times in AutoCAD, many systems redrew very slowly, there was the benchmark drawings of St Pauls church etc. and the race was on as to who could make the fastest redraw.
At the time it was all exciting, cutting edge stuff and now having some old Macs of that era to play with (at the time way too costly) I can see what the fuss was all about. These old Macs must have been red hot. Interestingly even my old Atari ST bears a strong resemblance to the Mac OS6/7 - that IIfx must have been totally space age. It seems the Mac OS was the benchmark as Windows95 onwards seems virtually an incarnation of it and all the applications bought up and amalgamated into MS.
Once I get my IIfx running again, I'll be back.