Considering the technical issues and problems associated with a simple Home Computer’s hardware the answer is pretty much yes.  Then the problems start to mount.

Apple, Commodore and IBM set the stage for the hardware concepts.  (Others such as Compaq, KayPro and Osborne contributed, but IBM blundered along and eventually set the real base standard.)

So now we have a box full of strange electronic stuff that does nothing but turn on when you push the right button.

Enter the Operating system, magic instructions that hope to make that strange box do wonderful things.

CP/M, DOS, Apple OS, Unix and such things started the experiments and efforts.

Eventually as the power of the electronic boxes evolved it became possible to use graphics to make the thing work and eliminate all that tedious typing and remembering things…

CP/M and DOS managed simple graphic interfaces and the along came Apple and Microsoft with efforts to create a GUI (Graphical User Interface) which eliminated maybe 90% of a need for user intelligence.  Most every thing is caused to happen by pointing at a picture(Icon) with a “mouse”.

Needless to say Apple and Microsoft went off in two very different directions on how such a GUI should function.  For many years Microsoft had to give away Windows to get anybody to try to use it, the Apple scheme much like IBM blundered around and eventually started to get a following on their unique computer systems.

Around Windows 3.0 or 3.1 Microsoft managed to find a market for their OS and it became a popular OS for consumer PCs.

As a general statement, anybody that can create a viable OS(Operating System) deserves great credit for risking their future to attempt a truly monumental task.

The first gigantic leaps in consumer GUI Operating Systems were Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.  Windows 95 was nice to look at but basically flawed, NT 4 was a major functional improvement but not consumer friendly.

To be honest, to be a commercial success a consumer OS must be easy, simple and essentially idiot proof!  90% of the users are frankly dumb, they have no clue about how to use a computer....

Apples OS 9 was blindingly fast compared to the Windows effort, but somewhat simplistic.  So Apple blindly jumped to the slow but exotic and powerful OS X.

Microsoft answered with “Vista” a slow but exotic and powerful OS that demanded most people buy a new computer to get it to work.  Both ventures were quick to market kludges plagued with neglect to quality in favor of quantity.

As of this date, Apple and Microsoft are turning out mediocre to crap operating systems with high costs for users. Linux is still evolving, by no means superior but it is free and actually responds to user feedback?

I like my Fedora computer, I’m tired of trying to figure how to get my Mac under OS X 10.5 to do what I want and the “Vista Laptops” with dual processors run at a snails pace…

Long live OS 9.22, Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4!