From:	Jared Stevens <stevja AT lineo DOT com>
Organization:	Caldera Thin Clients
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:20:41 -0600
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The way I see it is Microsoft got a big break with the IBM deal. MS-Dos was
running on any and all IBM PCs. Windows came out... it was an extension to Dos.
People wanted Dos to look cool, and wanted to be able to run all of these
programs that were made for windows, so they bought it. Windows '95 came out...
and it was yet another extension of the old os. It was backward compatable, and
could even run 32 bit applications. The only problem was, it was (and is)
unstable. '98 came out, and I have no idea why people bought that, it was just a
slower version of '95 with a few bug fixes. I guess in summary, Microsoft has
had their foot in the door of computers since the beginning of PCs. Its just
that the combined force of Linux and OS/2, and other operating systems are
slowly starting to get their fair share. I don't think it was because of
marketing alone, but mostly because of the springboard IBM provided them with
in the '80s. Anyway... I'll get off my soap box now and let you people have a
little peace... :)

Jared Stevens

On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Hallo Endlisnis,
> 
> 08 Sep 99 05:30, Endlisnis wrote to All:
> 
>  >> Right, and why has Windows become the most popular operating system
>  >> / GUI in the world? One word: marketing. If it hadn't been for
>  >> Microsoft furiously plugging its products, we might see a lot more
>  >> use of things like MacOS, OS/2 and Linux.
> 
>  E>     I don't think it is really exclusively marketing.
> Be shure: It is!
> There is NO other reason.
> 
> Everybody knows, that he only buy bugs by buying a M$ product
> and must pay another time to get a service pack which wil
> repair one of the bugs by leaving 10 others.
> Why buy all this fools Gates-Ware?
> 
>  >> And does anyone really believe Microsoft will not provide, at least
>  >> at a basic level, some support for DOS?
> "some support for DOS" ist not enough.
> WIN-NT has a nearly complete incompatible DOS-Box. So
> it's impossible to run small, fast and stabile DOS-
> Applications under WIN-NT.
> This is one of the reasons, I prefer OS/2 instead of WIN-NT.
> 
> ciao Werner
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