Xref: utzoo comp.os.minix:7727 comp.sys.ibm.pc:37205 comp.unix.xenix:8294 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: IBM and Apple Operating Systems (Re: dosread.c again) Message-ID: <6717@ficc.uu.net> Date: 29 Oct 89 14:49:59 GMT References: <6661@ficc.uu.net> <10609@cbnews.ATT.COM> <143@asihub.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 In article <143@asihub.UUCP> jmp@asihub.UUCP (John Pantone) explains that IBM is not guilty of deliberate malice, but rather stupidity: > Microsoft and IBM simply blew it when designing MSDOS and the PC. They > certainly didn't WANT to produce a weak, overpriced, under-powered computer > with a toy operating system which was behind the times before its time. > They just DID! Then how do you explain OS/2? -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "That particular mistake will not be repeated. There are plenty of mistakes left that have not yet been used." -- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)