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- From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 21:14:09 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- References: <1992Dec22.201103.28693@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec22.234828.0203999@locus.com> <28DEC199212022792@moose.cccs.umn.edu>
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- In article <28DEC199212022792@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.234828.0203999@locus.com>, lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison) writes:
- >>
- >> Besides the 1983 promise to allow ME to use more than 640K on my AT still
- >> is waiting to be filled by MicroSoft.
- >
- >Why should MS be responsible for IBM's promises?
- >
- >>
- >> I have been in this industry since the Altair was the hot kid on the block,
- >> and I really don't know a lot of users who are happy with Microsoft. Such
- >> statements as; "I bought this 386 with 8 megs of ram, why will this ****
- >> MS-Dog only allow me to use 640K without buying something else again" are
- >> rampant. People are not happy with MS, they only buy MS-DOS because it is
- >> effectively the only game in town, and you gotta play and pay through the
- >> nose for the priviledge.
- >
- >It was IBM that decided to place the BIOS/Video/Disk ROM where it is, not
- >MS. It was IBM that decided to go with the segmented architecture, not MS.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- I hope you mean by this that IBM decided to go with Intel 8088 and not
- Motorola 68000 chips. If we are given an 80x8x, we are limited to
- segmented architecture (in real mode).
-
- From my understanding, IBM did not think much of the PC at first and
- went for the absolute cheapest chips consistent with typical IBM
- reliability requirements (I've not heard of reliability complaints
- from any IBM machine--they may not have pushed the state of the art,
- but they are pretty reliable.)
-
- In fact, if IBM would have gone with Motorola, I don't think MS would
- exist today.
-
- -- Bruce
-
- --
- Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
- bdubbs@neuron.tamu.edu | Honest Politician, Political Science,
- | Scrupulous Lawyer
-