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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: Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:17:50 -0400
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On 23 Jul 2001 22:13:08 +0100, "Chris Young"
<unsatisfactory@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:23:59 -0400, Bob Retelle (of comp.sys.sinclair "fame")
>wibbled on for an age:
>
>> It would probably look very much like the e--Machines system I just
>> bought my daughter to take to college with her.
>[...]
>> The price is in the $300 ball park and it's a system she'll be
>> familiar with and can make instant use of. The software it runs will
>> be compatible with most people she runs into in college. It has a
>> software base that no new computer could challenge for decades.
>
>"decades"? Slightly optimistic perhaps. Look back a decade. Find a
>good software base. Is this still a good software base? No? I rest
>my case.
>
>Chris
Umm... you're using the wrong end of the telescope.
A decade ago there were several choices of competing Operating
Systems.
Now for all intents and purposes there is only one.
(MacOS is a far distant second.)
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.
Go to the local CompUSA and check out how much shelf space is devoted
to native Linux apps.
I rest my case.
BobR