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Re: [PLUG] Fwd: CG: Windows XP warning
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> Also at this time M$ released XENIX a UNIX clone for the Intel 8086,
> Zilog Z8000, Motorola M68000, and Digital Equipment PDP-11. Also as
> mention previously, DRDOS came out and there was a wonderful windowing
> system called Geos which used the Motif widget set.
Xenix was a little bit later, wasn't it?
> In 1980 Paul Allen made a deal with IBM for Tim Patterson's QDOS. Now
> there is a lot of controversy about how M$ actually got the OS from
> Tim. Judging from M$ behavior, I tend to believe that they stole it
> just as their policy is to extend and embrace everything.
>
> Though the PC was not as good as the other systems, being built from
Maybe not as good technically, but extremely superior in terms of price, which helped enable widespread acceptance of "micro" computers, and "clonability", which made it easier for many firms to compete (look at all the motherboard manufacturers, and peripheral manufacturers, and other manufacturers, that came into being, for that platform). Also, IBM being behind it legitimized it in a lot of business manager's minds. This, more than anything else (I believe) laid the seeds for the PC explosion. Yes, there were other "PCs" then - Apple, Commodore, etc - but the market didn't open up and take off until IBM entered it.
The computing world is so different today than it was back then.
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