From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha release Linux/GNU/X unix clone on CDROM for PCs Date: 30 Nov 1992 01:20:49 GMT
In article <ByHyuw.L78@cs.psu.edu> stimpy@dev-null.phys.psu.edu (Stimpson J. Cat) writes:
> Bwhahahahahaha!!!! That's a good one.. Ever concider cross-posting to
> rec.humor.funny? The Apple II put them on the map, yet it had one of the most
> badly hacked os-es I had ever seen.
Agreed, but the hardware was the best they could do with the resources at
their disposal... *and* they did try to get a better O/S standardised as
soon as they possibly could. ProDOS is another O/S to add to my list of
better-than-MS-DOS-in-the-early-80s-and-late-70s systems.
> Jobs was never more than a hardware version of Bill Gates. He saw an
> opening and grabbed it.
Perhaps, but he did the best job he could and still fit into that opening.
And he kept working on real improvements. Microsoft *still* hasn't done
anything to substantially improve MS-DOS since DOS 2.1.
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