Robby,
Good point. And SOOOOO true.
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On 6/14/2000 at 2:27 PM Tanner, Robby wrote:
>Let's not forget that:
>
>1) Gates also tried to downplay the internet, mainly because it was beyond
>the control of the Microsoft business model.
>2) at one point Willy G. quipped that you would never need more than 640KB
>of memory. Ironic, coming from the man whose bloatware is probably
>supporting the gold prices right now.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul K. Landers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 1:43 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: MS Breakup
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>>
>> >Yeah but what really bugs me about threads like these
>> denigrating MS is that
>> >apple stole the original gui idea from Xerox. Somehow the MS haters
>> >conveniently forget this.
>>
>> Hardly forgotten,but perhaps over stated;
>> 1)Xerox PARC *Never* intended to put a gui on everybody's desk,
>> only the SysAdmin's.
>> 2)They never got it out of the lab. Ever.
>> So, stolen? Or filched out of the dumpster out back?
>>
>> >> >I'm not saying Gates
>> >> >invented DOS (he didn't); I'm not saying that he
>> invented the killer
>> >> >app(again,
>> >> >he didn't. Visicalc did); I'm not saying he invented the
>> PC(IBM, Intel,
>> >> >etc.).
>> >> >But his company was critical in those early stages. Without
>> >> him, we might
>> >> >be
>> >> >using TR-DOS, CP/M, or some other legacy OS as the
>> "mainstream" OS, and
>> >> >saturation
>> >> >would be a lot less.
>> Or we might've been using DR Dos with QuarterDeck as
>> front end; Or
>> something else. This is the basic "because of, or in spite
>> of" problem.
>> Once the machinery was there, somebody would use it. And lots of
>> people did just that, as i recall. But, hey, since you Had to
>> pay for a
>> copy of WinDos Anyway...(now theres "inovation for you).
>>
>> pkl
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