Posted 12/06/2007 at 11:33:50pm

Not exactly what I would have chosen as the most important techs. Amiga definately deserves a mention. It used dedicated processors for graphics and audio, three processors all up including its general purpose. This was more or less a precusor to graphics cards like 3DFX. The AT specification itself. You mentioned ATX, AT effectively allowed IBM to quickly assemble an answer to Apple's first personal computers using off the shelf equipment which followed the AT specification. Technically, Apple computers follow the AT specification as well, so I would argue that the AT specification was the start of the Personal computer as we have come to know it. Oh, and you mentioned Ubuntu for some reason. Hasn't OS X done more than Ubuntu in that Apple were able to deliver the first truely accepted (by the general public) distrubution of Unix called Darwin (or OS X). On top of that, it works a lot more seemlessly than poorly assembled Linux distributions like Ubuntu. Oh yeah, and they also made linux one of the most anticipated operating system currently available going by the buzz that Leopard has generated.