He was quite right. I spent many a happy year removing coax and 3270s and replacing them with cat 5.
One of my favourite tasks involved removing a mainframe from a building, along with it's toxic fire suppression system and replacing it with a small Novell server that sat very comically in the middle of this huge room with enough cooling to keep a colony of penguins happy. Said server was more capable and powerful than what had been chucked out, and cost less than an single IBM-branded cable. There were many a sad face from those who got sacked for only knowing "useless old IBM" the thing that weeks before "no one got sacked for buying". Ah, happy times. 2010/1/29 Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> > Yes, Gates led IBM along; his chief concern was to distract them while > gaining market share for Windows. i remember a press conference in > Paris in 1993 for the Windows NT launch where he said he expected IBM > to break apart into pieces. > > It was the DOS OEM licensing that made Gates rich. > > Sean > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Brian Butterworth > <briant...@freeview.tv> wrote: > > OS/2 PM was a trick Microsoft played on IBM, wasn't it? > > Windows v3.0 was cooperative multitasking, not pre-emptive which was why > > people said it was a "DOS application" and they were quite right. > > It was the first point that made Gates rich, not the second. > > > > 2010/1/29 Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> > >> > >> I remember in 1992 when an engineer friend sniffed that Windows (v3) > >> wasn't a proper operating system, just a DOS application, and DOS was > >> a pig, and OS/2 was a serious OS. > >> > >> Bill Gates laughed all the way to the bank. > >> > >> Sean > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Brian Butterworth > >> <briant...@freeview.tv> wrote: > >> > Underwhelming. It's a big iPhone. It's named after the Star Trek > PADD. > >> > Might be good it if ran an operating system and had a keyboard. > >> > > >> > 2010/1/27 Mo McRoberts <m...@nevali.net> > >> >> > >> >> So, what does everyone think? > >> >> > >> >> (and how much effect will it have on the <video> situation over the > >> >> next 18 months or so, do we reckon?) > >> >> > >> >> M. > >> >> - > >> >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > >> >> please > >> >> visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > >> >> Unofficial list archive: > >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > Brian Butterworth > >> > > >> > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > >> > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and > >> > switchover > >> > advice, since 2002 > >> > > >> > >> - > >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please > >> visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > >> Unofficial list archive: > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Brian Butterworth > > > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and > switchover > > advice, since 2002 > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
