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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: David Ogg <davidogg@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 06:20:29 GMT
- 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
- Organization: Road Runner - NC
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In article <72gult4oelnh5vrncej03mu84ofi40okrg@4ax.com>, bobr1
@provide.net says...
> 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.
<snicker> "CompUK" has a funny ring to it :)
Well see what the justice department says about the future of the
platform :)
Hopefully they'll take they're head outa theyre arse and leave them
alone, I want to see how Darwinism treats Microsoft.