Excellent article on the web, its original goals, and the extent to which it can enact change today: https://medium.com/@iotwatch/the-tech-that-does-or-doesnt-matter-thoughts-after-cph150-e3e3f582334c
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Today I learnt that the original name for DOS was QDOS, for "Quick and Dirty Operating System"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS#QDOS
(Seems rather unfortunate that they dropped the Q.)
The games console market is fascinating: there's incentive to *not* provide upgraded models.
You want the guarantee that a game for $X just works on any $X purchased.
E.g. the Switch OLED has a bigger screen, and a better CPU than the original, but it's downclocked to match the original Switch's CPU.
The Matter protocol is excellent for puns.
"Does it Matter? It doesn't Matter."