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Re: ADTPro beta available

Linards Ticmanis wrote:

Michael J. Mahon schrieb:



Linux is trying to rekindle that flame, but it's so late and so far
down the road that their primary "fuel" is not the excellence of
thier offering, but fear and hatred of Microsoft.  Truly a movement
driven by negative energy.  ;-)  (BTW, this in no way applies to the
high priests of Linux, who are all devoted idealists--only to the
_hoi polloi_ who chant in the streets waving firebrands, or to the
corporate opportunists who see a stick to swing at MS.  ;-)



Belated answer to that: Linux isn't all that new after all, and I
remember very well how it totally blew the pants off Windows 3.x when I
first installed it in early 1995 on my lowly 386. You really did need
8MB of RAM though, while Windows was happy enough with 4.

I'm not so sure if Windows would be where it is now without the pull of
Linux.


Linux has been around for quite a while, but as a "movement" it
is more recent.  And, of course, Windows 95 also "blew the pants
off Windows 3.x".  ;-)

And until it became a "movement", it was such a tiny blip on the
radar that Windows could be blissfully unresponsive to it.  The
move to NT was motivated by events (and people) quite distinct
from Linux--though, of course, the OS design community is a small
world...

I think it might be safer to say that Linux had more influence
on OS X, and MacOS had a significant influence on Win95's GUI.

-michael

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