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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: "sands-of-iowa" <sands@cableone.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 07:52:13 -0500
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Windows 3 came out less then 15 years ago before that there was 0
software for it when an OS come out and it is used by a large base of people
software is written for it so it does not matter what OS you start with for
your new machine if you can sale a large number of them.
but you do need to get the cost down to $150
David Ogg wrote in message ...
>In article <72gult4oelnh5vrncej03mu84ofi40okrg@4ax.com>, bobr1
>@provide.net says...
>> On 25 Jul 2001 20:10:50 +0100, "Chris Young"
>> <unsatisfactory@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>
>> >On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:17:50 -0400, Bob Retelle (of comp.sys.sinclair
"fame")
>> >wibbled on for an age:
>> >
>> >> With the kind of momentum behind the current OS, it's unlikely that
>> >> any other OS will be able to overtake the existing software base for a
>> >> long, long time, if ever.
>> >
>> >My point was that the existing software base will not look as good in
>> >a decade, let alone decades.
>>
>> Sigh... the software base for the existing Operating System is the
>> point.
>>
>> The point is that the Operating System a decade from now will likely
>> be the same, or a derivation of the current Operating System, so the
>> software base a decade from now will likely be the same software base
>> as it is now, with incremental changes, not radical shifts in support
>> for "other" Operating Systems.
>>
>>
>> >
>> >> Go to the local CompUSA and check out how much shelf space is devoted
>> >> to native Linux apps.
>> >
>> >Oh, yes, I'll just pop over the Atlantic in my private jet and have a
>> >look.
>> >
>> >Clue: The USA is not "the world"
>> >
>> Oh, that's certainly the point of this discussion.
>>
>> OK then, CompUK, or Future Shop, or whatever.
>
><snicker> "CompUK" has a funny ring to it :)
>
>Well see what the justice department says about the future of the
>platform :)
>
>Hopefully they'll take they're head outa theyre arse and leave them
>alone, I want to see how Darwinism treats Microsoft.