Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!bu.edu!bu-cs!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!draken!d88-jwa From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: The meaning of life, as it relates to hacking. Message-ID: <2634@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 29 Dec 89 21:04:33 GMT References: <4639@sugar.hackercorp.com> <4ZW1ijS00WBKE1qh5C@andrew.cmu.edu> <4804@sugar.hackercorp.com> <71@zds-ux.UUCP> Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 31 In article <71@zds-ux.UUCP> gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason) writes: >In article rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes: >>(the economy). Without MS-DOS, it wouldn't have been accepted nearly >>so quickly, or been as easy to program.... EASY to program ???? Tell me, how many TSR's do you have ? How many of them say "Load Me Last" ? ANd how many times have you found that two different applications use the same interrupt vector ? Thought so. At least there's a supported way to do this on the mac. >Who knows, maybe the industry would have standardized around something >more like a Sun, or a Mac. Or maybe growth would have been much >slower with a fragmented market of incompatible machines. We just >don't and can't know. But the standard of the machines would have been much higher, since the competition would have been harder. And Apple WOULD have had a better position ... :-) -- --- Stay alert ! - Trust no one ! - Keep your laser handy ! --- h+@nada.kth.se == h+@proxxi.se == Jon Watte longer .sig available on request