On a more minor scale, OS-9 on the TRS-80 Color Computer was awesome, multi-user, multi-tasking, very powerful but on a weak selling computer in a saturated market...it didn't sell well. Much like the Newton, it was just way ahead of its time.
I love how the discussions of today's computer environment heads down the road of geekdom it does here at BBR.
You would think they have pron to download, huh? -- Saving the world keeps me busy. However, I find Earth very primitive from my home planet of Krypton. -Supergirl