On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/3/12 8:50 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > >> >> That is the root cause of all Window's problems. The company was run be a >> "chief software architect" who technically very ignorant and lacked any >> formal education in the subject. Windows still suffers because it tries >> to >> maintain backwards compatabilty >> > > > Hardly the "root" of all problems.. Yes, the conflation of kernel and UI > (most of Windows is really all about UI capabilities: heck it's the very > name of the product). The kernel of NT was based on the architecture of > VAX/VMS, which was fairly nice. Real multitasking, real pre-emption, real > process isolation, real dynamic run time binding. (none of which DOS had) > There was also OS/2... > > > We have the Internet (called arpanet back then. We had email and UNIX >> was >> alive and well. We even had mice and track balls This was not the "dark >> ages" the only real difference was the price of hardware. And in this age >> gates did NOT know the difference between an OS and a command shell and he >> was running Microsoft. >> >> > Don't make the mistake of confusing public statements with background and > knowledge. For all you know, Gates wanted to deliberately confuse the two > for marketing reasons. > Not to mention that in the early 80s, Microsoft was a leading supplier of Unix, er, Xenix! Here is an interesting history: http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Finland_period/xenix_microsoft_shortlived_love_affair_with_unix.shtml and note the comment by John Wilson* here: https://plus.google.com/112975947891556571931/posts/Vpmx4EBMCR3 Yes, Unix was alive and well back then and Microsoft were actively using and selling it. The PC market was a different animal. Orin, Worked in Europe in the early 80s with Xenix. *Managed the group at Logica in London that sold Xenix in Europe. He had the misfortune that Microsoft kept poaching his staff to work in Redmond on Windows! _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
