Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[sehrlich@shore.net (Scott R. Ehrlich)]

Let's not forget some basic facts from the past:

- Mac got its GUI start from Xerox PARC, because Xerox could not market
their inventions (including the mouse)

- Gates got his start from buying CP/M and modifying it into DOS for the
consumer market


At least Apple built their Apple II series computers (from scratch?).
Gates flat-out took what existed and modified it.

In article <716e3.110$cE6.2202@client>,
Steve Mentzer <!smentzer@ecom.net> 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....
>
>
>>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
>


-- 
-------------------------
Scott Ehrlich                           sehrlich@shore.net
Scott Ehrlich Consulting		http://www.shore.net/~sehrlich