< No. Starting ten years lat(t)er is your concept, not mine Well no, not mine. I wasn't responding to you here.
I like your fantasy view of how things might have been, though. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2012 23:51 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? In <E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C4863@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local>, on 07/24/2012 at 08:00 PM, David Stokes <[email protected]> said: >In other words, if everything had happened ten years later we would now >be around the same point we were 10 years ago. No. Starting ten years latter is your concept, not mine. >No one could have foreseen the problems the Internet would bring until >there was an Internet. The Internet started with the ARPAnet-MILNET split. Not only could people forsee the problems of uncontrolled commercialization, they *did* forsee those problems and their warnings were ignored. >Otoh, without Windows, who really would have been using the Internet Pretty much everybody who is now. Without windows they'd be running, e.g., OS/2, MacOS, Linux. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
