Re: What's to become of the Apple II?

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <01bbdd0e$a2f3fc00$65191dce@salfter>,
Scott Alfter <salfter@accessnv.com> wrote:
>Ken Payne wrote in article <329b9e4f.73442809@news.atl.mindspring.com>...
>> "Tom Zuchowski" <tjz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >Heh.  Let's see... Netscape has EIGHTY-SIX percent of the web browser
>> >market, and chooses to sue MS rather than compete with them?  I see
>> >monopolistic behavior, all right, but it's not at MS.
>> >
>> 
>> Microsoft is the one who's dumping their browser for free because it
>> can't compete.
>
>
>"Can't compete?"  I've been using Internet Explorer since one of the 1.x
>versions, which was on the Plus! CD-ROM.  Granted, v1.x was lame and v2.x
>still wasn't all there yet, but I've found v3.0 to be very usable--few
>glitches and crashes, and most of the time it seems to run faster than
>Netscape Navigator.  YMMV, of course, but I've had fairly good luck with IE
>(and I'm one of those who would've been in the "bash Microsoft at every
>possible opportunity" just a year and a half ago).

It was fairly usable at one time anyhow. I checked the about box on a copy at
work once and it said "based on NCSA Mosaic". Another in a long list of
examples of Microsoft's necessity to buy or copy other people's stuff since
they flat can't come up with any of their own.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com