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- From: gonzo@indirect.com (Robert J. Gonzalez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Ignorance of Commodore by media incredible
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 02:59:01 GMT
- Organization: Internet Direct, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4d9rhl$lnf@globe.indirect.com>
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- Paul Allen Panks (pap@dana.ucc.nau.edu) wrote:
- : Egad! ;) I thought this thread (my thread) died a long time ago...I guess
- : not...It has been revived...hmm...
-
- : hmmm...ENIAC -> Altair -> Apple II -> Macintosh -> Windows 95?!
-
- : I don't follow their logic at all...perhaps from ENIAC to Apple II and
- : certainly perhaps to macintosh, but Windows 95?! Since when is THAT a
- : computer? It's an Operating System! Who are these bozos? ;)
-
- Windows in NOT an operation system, it's a user interface, an overlay, a
- go-between for DOS and the user.
-
- It still needs DOS to work
-
-
- : If their talking about significant developments in the broad history of
- : computers, and not just computers themselves, then I would perhaps agree
- : with them. Let's rewrite it as:
-
- : ENIAC -> Altair -> Apple II -> CP/M -> DOS -> IBM PC -> Commodore 64 ->
- : Macintosh -> Amiga -> IBM Clones ->Windows -> CD-ROM -> Pentium ->
- : Windows 95
-
- : That sounds alot better...
-
-
- : --
- : This isn't a .sig file. It's only an illusion of the mind...
-