From: Jared Stevens 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 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain References: <8ba_9909100600 AT amper DOT m DOT isar DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99091315281800.02027@sparky.lineo.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 > -- > |Fidonet: Werner Heine 49:808/6.1 > |Internet: werner_heine AT amper DOT m DOT isar DOT de > | > | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.