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BYTE Magazine, August 1987. The market is trying to understand where IBM PS/2 fits and its future, so the issue is focussed on Micro Channel, the new bus architecture introduced with PS/2. The editorial will give you more insight. The extra snippet is from the Ask BYTE page. A guy is struggling with OCR on his Atari, and the ad is about running CP/M on your PC.

BYTE Magazine, September 1987. IBM's OS/2 is still a hot thing. Remember, this is a time when most PCs are bought by companies, they are still a "business tool" for most users. It's also a time that the industry finds printing technologies a fascinating subject :-) 

If you're wondering what PC-MOS/386 was, it was a multi-user, multi-tasking OS that could run DOS programs. Intel's 80386 is almost 2 years old, commercially available at reasonable prices, and its 32-bit architecture, together with the MMU, allowes OS developers to dream multi-user/multi-tasking can come to the PCs.

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There is also this preview, about Apple bundling Hypercard with "1-megabyte Macs". Leaving aside that it's 1 MB (not 1 GB...), Hypercard was a revolutionary product that inspired the creation of hypertext, i.e. HTML/HTTP, in other words, the Web.