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2020-08-27 -PC Follies

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Posted by Clem 2020-08-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top
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#1 When a man's computer operating system has been a virus breeding hell hole for 40 years why would anybody expect his treatment of human viruses would be any better?

Posted by 3dc 2020-08-27 06:09|| 2020-08-27 06:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Same for when he tried to use FUD against Linux and paid for the Mormon's and Gore's old pet lawyer to try to steal it....

Also, look at how it got his first OS contract with IBM just before DOS 1.0.

Posted by 3dc 2020-08-27 06:12|| 2020-08-27 06:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Also, look at how it got his first OS contract with IBM just before DOS 1.0.

I'll always remember how he fucked over Digital Research with Windows 3.11 - it wouldn't install on top of DR DOS, so at the time I had to go back to original DOS to finish the Windows install. Digital Research was bankrupt at some point thereafter.

Posted by Raj 2020-08-27 07:49|| 2020-08-27 07:49|| Front Page Top

My computer tech friend who turned me on to Linux years ago has such detest for MS and its "virus breeding hell hole" that he writes [w]indows and [m]icrosoft in lower case.

Posted by Clem 2020-08-27 08:44|| 2020-08-27 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 My first PC ran on DR. That was just before IBM declared they were going to get into the business. The story I heard was IBM was shopping for a OS for their new toy. When the IBM reps showed up at DR, management was out on the golf course. The reps moved on to Seattle.

Similar story about fast food on military installations. The Army put out a request for bids. McD's thought they had it sown up. Burger King got the contract and is still there. When the Air Force followed suit, management got serious.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-08-27 08:56|| 2020-08-27 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Dont' forget how Gates would lock competition out of the OS market. If you were a hardware manufactured and offered a choice of OS'es - the price per unit for MS-DOS would go *way* up and you wouldn't be able to compete. You could only price match your competition if you only offered MS-DOS.
Even IBM often could not offer OS/2 on their own hardware.
And didn't NT have aspects of VMS in it?
(I think Microsoft the company has matured past that with the current CEO. Visual Studio on Mac? .NET on Mac and Linux?)

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-08-27 09:59|| 2020-08-27 09:59|| Front Page Top

#7 ...MS got cut out of the tablet market because they wouldn't listen to people who didn't want bloatware for their internet experience and entertainment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-08-27 13:26|| 2020-08-27 13:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Anyone else remember CPM?

And yes WNT had aspects of VMS....it was no coincidence that NT is VMS right shifted logical.

You can thank the great God Cutler of DEC. He ran from Maynard to Seattle cause the 64 bit version of VMS was cancelled.

Posted by AlanC 2020-08-27 14:45|| 2020-08-27 14:45|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 - I understand the pricey Surface 3's are selling pretty well. Even the off-brand tablet I got at Amazon (<<$) uses Win 10

Posted by Frank G 2020-08-27 15:52|| 2020-08-27 15:52|| Front Page Top

#10 That's CP/M AlanC. And it's multi-user big brother MP/M. I think I still have a couple of computers running CP/M. Microsoft wrote a lot of compilers (BASIC, FORTRAN, Assembler, etc..) and stuff for CP/M before MS-DOS came along.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-08-27 17:29|| 2020-08-27 17:29|| Front Page Top

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