| Mike Leone on Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:29:05 -0400 |
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Paul (paul@dpagin.net) wrote this on 10 18, 02 at 19:10: > > > > > >>Longer history. > >> > >> > >Unix, yes. Not Linux. And yes, some people do see them as different. > > > > Compared to Windows, *yes*, longer history. What is XP based on? What Not really ... NT has been pushed as MS's "business" OS since ... 1994 or so (NT 3.1). Linux wasn't all that advanced back then, either. And I can recall using Win3.1 in 1991/92. And yes, that is longer than Linux. We were doing desktop publishing of the forms we used in the bank I worked at back then. And so, in the minds of a business person, Windows does have a longer history of being productive in a business environment than Linux. What would you say the first release of a Linux distro with X-Windows that you could do desktop publishing effectively with was? > is Win95 based on? What is Windows 3.1 based on? The only thing that > has a long history in Windows is DOS, which M$ would like to get rid of. > Linux has been Linux since it was created. And compared to Linux DOS > is pathetic! > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone Public Key - <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.asc> Registered Linux user# 201348 Attachment:
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