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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: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:10:06 -0400
- Newsgroups: alt.amiga, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy, comp.sys.atari.st, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair
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On 25 Jul 2001 20:10:50 +0100, "Chris Young"
<unsatisfactory@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:17:50 -0400, Bob Retelle (of comp.sys.sinclair "fame")
>wibbled on for an age:
>
>> 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.
>
>My point was that the existing software base will not look as good in
>a decade, let alone decades.
Sigh... the software base for the existing Operating System is the
point.
The point is that the Operating System a decade from now will likely
be the same, or a derivation of the current Operating System, so the
software base a decade from now will likely be the same software base
as it is now, with incremental changes, not radical shifts in support
for "other" Operating Systems.
>
>> Go to the local CompUSA and check out how much shelf space is devoted
>> to native Linux apps.
>
>Oh, yes, I'll just pop over the Atlantic in my private jet and have a
>look.
>
>Clue: The USA is not "the world"
>
Oh, that's certainly the point of this discussion.
OK then, CompUK, or Future Shop, or whatever.
>Chris
BobR