Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!andree From: andree@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <4815@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 7-Jan-84 22:51:58 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.4815 Posted: Sat Jan 7 22:51:58 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jan-84 21:23:11 EST Lines: 19 #R:utcsrgv:-300900:uokvax:3400030:000:763 uokvax!andree Jan 6 21:37:00 1984 The other problem is that OS'S don't really supersede one another - HARDWARE supersedes hardware, requiring new software. I don't know of any case where an OS has captured a market (where market includes the hardware) and then been replaced, except when the OS has been phased out by the manufacturer. I think Unix is the next micro OS. Not because it will replace MSDOS, but because people will be able to afford hardware that can run it. After you have hardware that good, there's no qualative change, so things won't change much. Sorta like OS/360 - they'll keep adding features and changing the name, but it won't go away. Unix is the OS/360 of the 80's. We're gonna be stuck with it until either the hardware or software undergoes a radical change.