More evidence of dictatorship: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/02/apple-stanza-usb/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)
On Feb 1, 11:48 pm, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> wrote: > I came from the era of the Amiga. An awesomely design personal > computer for the time. It could primitively muti-task in 128K of > RAM. Why? Because multi-tasking isn't hard if you get your OS and > CPU architecture right to start with. I saw the dominance of the PC > market, not because it was better but because it allowed different > vendors to build and develop the platform. But it was the "lowest > common denominator". Windows couldn't even multi-task until NT came > along and the whole system had (has) such a tie to DOS it's > embarrassing. And most of the world thought "this was the only way it > could have happened". I know it's a different world now. And Apple > have been able to stand alone in the market because of how far we have > come with standards (you don't NEED to run Windows and Office) and > because of all the development that has happened in the PC space (a > Mac is a PC). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
