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
>
>
> >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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