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Mostly no. People didn't have access to the Internet so most of their computer knowledge came from books or magazines but those tended to be siloed by platform. Even a "power user" who subscribed to PC World or MacUser wouldn't know much about Amiga or Unix.



Byte was probably the most cross-platform magazine at time, and even then there were only so many pages to cover things - it ended up being mostly PC, Mac, and Unix workstations, IIRC.




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