Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Glen wrote:

>> I've seen any number of "Intro. to Computers/ing" books, and all of them 
>> spend at least a page or so covering even the Analytical Machine.
>> 
>> Until Win2000/XP, the basis of all M$ "personal" Windows were based on 
>> CP/M, through it's descendant MS-DOS. If Glen were a teacher/student of 
>> computer science surely he would know that.
>> 
>> Roy
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>>> Ross.
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>Funny thing is I am one of the few people who acutally has degrees in 
>both History and Computer Science (come on how many can there be).
>
>Yeah well sorry-- I've been use Unix and Linux servers and Linux pcs for 
>a long time.  I wasn't aware that one had to know the MS product line to 
>be competent.  In fact IHMO the less MS software you use the more likely 
>your stuff is to actually work.

Glen, you are certainly entitled to use whatever system(s) you like,
but you can hardly consider a history of computers complete without
a full history of the development and dissemination of the personal
computer--and that story cannot be told without CP/M _and_ Microsoft.

I suspect that you are not a communist, but any history of the twentieth
century would be woefully incomplete without the story of communism.

History and science are not about what you agree with, they're about
facts and the relationships between facts.

-michael

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