Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[!smentzer@ecom.net (Steve Mentzer)]

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....


>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