Intel has been trying to move customers to the more complex 486 chip and the 386-SL, a version tailored for battery-powered portable computers.
There is, for example, a version of Ubuntu specifically tailored for servers that would be ideal for this.
New overstrikes were introduced by vendors as they produced versions of APL tailored to specific hardware, system features, file systems, and so on.
According to Mr. Freeman, the company has developed different versions of its software tailored to a variety of existing in-car systems.
A version of Ikarus tailored for signmaking applications was released by URW as "Signus".
But Microsoft introduced its own version of Java tailored for Windows.
It would become the last version of DR-DOS also tailored for desktop use.
The format is licensed by TV networks, so that they may produce a version of the show tailored to their nationality and audience.
Microsoft said its strategy was to sell two different versions of Windows tailored for different types of computers but able to run the same programs.
This British version was soon being produced by Savile Row tailors in London.