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- From: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 10:24:41 GMT
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- scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY) writes:
- >bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes...
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >Maybe up until Win 3.0 companies figured that if the customer wanted a
- >computer with a Macintosh interface, then the customer would buy a
- >Macintosh ;-) And please identify any type of work which _requires_
- >Windows 3.0 to accomplish.
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- Also, what does "equivalent" mean? Hasn't Quarterdeck, for example, had
- many of the useful features of Windows in their various systems software
- for a long time?
-
- --Tim Smith
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