| Michael Leone on Tue, 12 Feb 2002 02:50:13 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 19:51, Fred K Ollinger wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Mike Leone wrote: > > > I thought IBM released the specs to their first PC, and that's what > > > started all the clones. > > > > Yes, that's true. It's one of the reasons, if not *the* reason "IBM > > compatibles" did so much better in the home computer market than > > competitors. IBM contracted with Microsoft to write the first OS for the > > I don't think so. I know that there were better machines for the same > price. Wasn't the amiga better (gui + sound), cheaper, and it had dos > emulation? I thought that the reason that the other models failed was due > to inept business decisions and standardization. That is MS benefited from > the size of IBM which was trusted at the time, "nobody gets fired for > buying IBM (now it's MS)". So people bought, at home, what they had at > work. Even so .... it could have been some company other than MS (IBM originally wanted DR-DOS). Whichever company IBM tapped had a better than good shot to be THE company, due to IBM's (at the time) huge influence in PCs as well as the openness of the original ISA bus. It coulda been DR-DOS. But it wasn't. > MS didn't write the OS, they just resold other people's work. Well, they *bought* the other people's work, so it was theirs to sell. > Not to mention that soon after that, there were other oses that ran on the > same hardware: dr-dos, and os2, both of which ran dos apps. I have heard > that the two listed were better than MS' product at the time, so in this > case, the market was not efficient. > > > machine. I'm not sure how things proceeded from there to where we are > > now. > > Fred > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 <mailto:turgon@mike-leone.com> ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg> "Sometimes your lack of sympathy gets hard to explain, So on your mask of make-up you just paint a little parody of pain" "When you were young", Del Amitri Attachment:
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