[TriLUG] even more interesting

[Matt Jezorek]

Since no one understood what I was trying to say I will shut up and leave
the list. I have noticed that thru out most
of the conversations, no one should have an opinion different then a few of
the other members here. And if they do
they are quickly discounted. This is  absurd. One question before I leave
the list. Where are these OS'es and Computers
now? You cant say its MS anti-competitive behavior that pushed them out.
They were gone long before MS became bully's.
If it was not for MS Desktop even though it was stolen, computers would not
be on as many desks as they are now.

Matt - The Last Message

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sinner from the Prairy" <sinner_prairy at hotmail.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] even more interesting


> >From: Chris Merrill <cmerrill at nc.rr.com>
>
> >al johson said:
> > > To make matters funnier still, the first PC DOS and BASIC was actually
> >not
> > > created by Microsoft at all, but purchased from another company. Now
you
> > > know why Microsoft can scarcely be called "innovative". As those who
>
> >Absolutely...wasn't the original Windows a rip-off of some
psuedo-graphical
> >shell (like Norton PC Commander, maybe)?
>
> And the first DOS was bought to a hardware company, where their engineers
> had developed a pretty dummy OS called "Dummy OS". Bill Gates bought it
when
> they discovered that they were unable to build an OS in time for IBM, of
> course they didn't tell that to the engineers. And they renamed the OS to
> "Disc OS".
>
> > > companies at the time who actually did their computing on Commodore
64's
> >,
> > > Commodore Pets, TI's and lots of other computers you've probably never
> > > heard of.
>
> >Aaahh yes, the Commodore PET.  That's the first computer I ever
used...and
> >where I learned BASIC.  I didn't think anyone else remembered them!
>
> My first one was a Sinclair Spectrum. With a full 48k of RAM. Those were
the
> days... Any my first real OS was CP-M on a Toshiba computer of some sort.
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
>
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