System 23 has two 8 inch Floppy's, a video screen, and a keyboard integrated into one single case. The experience gained with this project will prove to be of great importance at the development of the PC in 1980. It lightens the burdens of a programmer to rewrite a program every time it is going to be used on a different machine, within the limits of a compatible CPU off course. This so called OS is because of its compactness attractive enough to be accepted by all other manufacturers as a de facto standard. Now the software industry really can take off en make affordable programs, meaning the price of software can come down.
Software is still expensive and only businesses can afford to buy software packages.
In the next single year 900.000 copies will be sold. Which will be distributed on the market in 1979 by Software Ants. Initially available only on Apple II, the program was an instant success. There is a lot of resistance in the United Kingdom against the overpriced American computers for private use. Instead of using a monitor people have to use their own television.