Hi
Or Botton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> But we should keep an eye on reality.
>> M$ (the company which made DOS big) wanted to abandon DOS as the
>> i386 came out, because DOS was not able to use the advanced features
>> that this processor offered.
OB> The way I got it - they wanted to leave DOS because other companies
OB> were making better clones.
I don't think so ...
the clones never played a big role ... and IMHO M$ DOS (the kernel) was
allways the most M$ DOS compatible DOS.
OB> (Thats why Windows 95 pretended to "end the age of DOS", even though
OB> its a DOS program. To elimanate the clones.)
The reason for that is that users (average) don't want command line.
They want a nice desktop with a mouse and a 5 MB background image and a
mousecursor which has a shadow, and menues, which materialize out of
nothing with a 'nice' effect.
The cloners were never a big problem for M$.
(they lost x times more money in illegal copies of their software)
OB> Or Botton
OB> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CU, Ricsi
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