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| Subject: | Re: Is Verizon Anti-Mac? |
| From: | Robert Peirce |
| Posting date: | 04-05-2008 |
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Geoff wrote:
> On Fri, 02 May 2008 19:12:01 GMT, Janitor Boy Jr wrote:
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> >Windows was created to keep stupid people away from Linux.
>
> Not quite factual.
> Windows was created before Linux existed. :)
>
> At the time Windows was created everything was PC(MS)-DOS or UNIX.
> Some CP/M systems were nice, such as the one that came with the Xerox
> 820. You could even customize the system files and the BIOS if you
> were into Z80 assembler.
>
> You could buy AT&T UNIX for $1200 and deal with their bad support.
> You could buy SCO's version for about $900, it came in 5 or 6 boxes
> with nice 3-ring binders explaining all the commands. Tools and
> programs to run them were extra. Some cost as much as $700.
> No GUI at all, X didn't exist.
You could buy an Altos computer that came with AT&T Unix Sys III
installed. I did. No GUI, but all the Unix tools.
Later, I was running on a NeXT computer very close to the time Windows
came out. I don't recall who was first, maybe Windows, but NeXT wasn't
far behind. NeXTtep, later NEXTSTEP, sat on top of a BSD Unix system.
You could run GUI, shell or both. NeXT was eventually merged into Apple
and NEXTSTEP provided the basis for OS X. In fact, I switched to Apple
when I saw OS X. It was so familiar!!
Frankly, I was never the least bit interested in Microsoft or Apple
until Windows and OS X.
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Robert B. Peirce, Venetia, PA 724-941-6883
bob AT peirce-family.com [Mac]
rbp AT cooksonpeirce.com [Office]
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