[TriLUG] even more interesting

[al johson]

And the funny thing was that IBM let their PC die because they were making
MORE money doing something else. Commodore died because they were forced to
manufacture more computers and disk drives than any company had ever had to
do. The thing that killed them was a single ship of defective disk drives
from asia. As a result they took an enormous hit AND they didn't have enough
drives to satisfy demand. Then later they built too many C-64's and drives
and flooded the market which forced down the price so low they couldn't make
a profit. They did create a wonderful computer called the Amiga which BYTE
magazine claimed was far superior to the Macintosh. It had stereo sound
(first computer to have it), and many innovations that were ahead of its
time (one I really liked was its ability to read text files outloud).
Actually Microsoft's earlier OS's were in some ways more powerful than any
of those today. For example you used to be able to automate Windows 3.1 to
perform repetitive tasks, but Gates in his stupidity removed that from later
editions!!  To de-automate a computer system has got to be the stupidest
thing anyone has ever done to any PC. You used to be able to press a button
on an icon and then make all sorts of complicated mouse movements (open
programs, etc.) and then press it again and have a program which would do
the same thing again whenever you pressed a button. You can of course do
this with non-Microsoft programs, but they won't work with all applications,
like a system program would!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Jezorek <matt at bluelinux.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] even more interesting


> 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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