Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

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Steve Mentzer wrote:

> Try deperately, but ultimately failing to sound intelligent, Mike Pike said...
> >
> >I am a PC user... I collect alot of old apple stuff.. the old ]['s //gs,
> >and the like, as well as other machines....
> >
> >I recently obtained a //gs in mint condition with the OS disks... and let
> >me tell you something... Apple did GSOS back in the 80;s and put it on ONE
> >DISK..
>
> Hmmmm..... Here are a few things that *standard* GSOS lacks.
>
>         1 - Memory protection.
>         2 - Multi-tasking
>         3 - Virtual Memory
>         4 - Integrated multi-protocol networking.
>         5 - A ton of simple utility applications
>         6 - Integrated web browsing.
>         7 - A rich GUI feature set
>         8 - Hardware abstraction.
>         9 - A software/disk/file based API
>         10- Enough tool DLL's to make your head spin.
>
>         and the list goes on and on and on.....
>
> All those things eat up disk space... Make GSOS work like Win9x and then come
> back and talk about OS size. Oh, and remember.... the Windows API is on disk...
> On a IIgs, it is in ROM...
>
> (and didn't GSOS v6.0.1 ship on 5 disks????)
>
> >what Microsoft markets as win98 and puts on a CD.... the *ONLY*
> >reason MS is where it is today, is because Steve jobs was too stubborn to
> >license his OS to other machines... had Apple let the GUI MacOS out to IBM
> >- you would be using Apple's OS on you intel right now....
> >
>
> And as the demands of desktop applications increased (as they have
> trememndously under intel/Windoze platforms), the MacOS would have died a slow,
> painful death....
>
> The MacOS was not a technical marvel....
>

I think MacOS won't die slow and painful, as MacOS is going to UNIX (at least Unix
like) system, I think you forgot about the philosophy of UNIX, is to use utilties
to accomplish a task, you don't need many applications, but  you need utilities
(single tasked), they are the screw driver and hammers.

>
> >Gates has not invented anything - he has taken other's ideas, made a few
> >changes, and sold it... Gates is a salesmen, thats the bottom line, he
> >knows how to market, and that's why he is where he is today.
> >
>
> Doesn't matter. A good salesman is more effective at making money than a
> techno-nerd. That is why wozniak would have been lost without jobs (and vice
> versa).
>
> Money is what it is all about bud..... get used to it.
>
> smentzer@pacbell.net

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