On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:48:45 +0100, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > Right here is the heart of the reason that it is not reasonable to >expect there to be one true OS for all. Why bend over backwards trying to >be all things to all men when it is simpler to have different OSs tuned for >different roles.
I don't think that has ever been the case. We have OSs in traffic lights running in 8 bit CPUs. I wonder if some of them run CP/M today. But using the popular comparison of computers with transportation, we don't have to re-learn how to drive when we buy a new car, there are sufficient similarities with our old car that we only need to tweak our driving experience. Putting Windows or OS-X on your PDA may be overkill, but it allows someone else to put Opera or Safari on it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
