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- In article <1992Dec22.214057.5756@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
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- >I think you should dabble a bit more in economics. MS has had ZERO to
- >do with the down-pricing of computers. They have had little to
- >do with OS's, also. DOS was a hack, procured from another company
- >which in turn borrowed it from a third. The most major change was
- >the 'UNIX-ification' of DOS, i.e., they borrowed heavily from another
- >OS. NT will be the first truly MS-written OS. Even that has
- >borrowed heavily from others (Mach from CMU, etc.).
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- I do not care if DOS was a hack or not. The point is that it was
- _needed_ by people to operate their computers, and MS was the only
- company that provided it to them by the time they needed it.
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- How come that no other company produced an equivalent of WIN 3.0 before MS ?
- I do not say that WIN 3.0 is necessarily an outstanding technical
- achievement. What I say is that MS were the first to provide people
- with what they need to do their work.
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- Why is it that people has taken for granted for years that only
- MS is capable of providing developers with APIs, and watched
- every word that come out from BG ? Only in 1991
- IBM challenged that assumption. Why did not they challenge it a lot
- earlier ?
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- Dov
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