Xref: utzoo comp.os.minix:7744 comp.sys.ibm.pc:37252 comp.unix.xenix:8309 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!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: <6724@ficc.uu.net> Date: 30 Oct 89 16:20:38 GMT References: <6661@ficc.uu.net> <10609@cbnews.ATT.COM> <143@asihub.UUCP> <6723@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 In article <6723@ficc.uu.net> korenek@ficc.uu.net (Gary Korenek) writes: > 8. The point to all this: companies take massive gambles with new > products. If it had not been for the original IBM-PC and MS-DOS, > we would not even have what we have today. No, we'd have something based on Concurrent CP/M, OS/9, SOS, or some other decent DOS of that period. We'd have something better. IBM didn't create the PC indusry. It doesn't do that any more. It looked and it saw a thriving industry, and said "I want that". So it took it. -- `-_-' 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)