As well, a lot of other neat OSes might have been
around these days were it not for MS's death grip on
the computing market (thankfully Linux got in so
early, who knows otherwise?). Remember OS2, GEOS,
BEOS....

The thing I always found funny was their commercial
for Windows 95, where they showed four animated
symbols -- "In conventional OSes, each task operates
for only a small portion of time <showing each
animation running in turn for about a second> whereas
Windows 95 lets them all run simultaneously <shows all
the animations running concurrently>."

Of course Win95 still used timeslicing like Windows 3
and earlier used (at least I'd think so), except now
you couldn't change the length of the slice. "Since ya
can't see it, it must NOT be doing it!" Right? :)

- T.C.


--- Bob Axtell <cr_axtell@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> I realize that many younger guys don't understand
> why MS$ is so hated by so
> many of us older guys.  Its because we saw,
> intimately, how MS$ managed to
> flimflam so many people and get away with it.
>
> A small gang of programmers disassembled Digital
> Research's CPM, tinkered
> with it a little, then came up with IBM DOS 1.0.
> They then worked an odd
> deal with IBM to compete against IBM with their own
> versions, that promised
> to fix the problems they'd left in the first
> version. Once that pattern of
> deception started, it became a pattern for the
> creation of vast wealth-
> just create poor code with a little bit of
> razzle-dazzle, then blame the
> resulting mess on everything and everyone else. It
> worked.
>
> If you don't believe me, read the archives of early
> PC magazines. Watch how
> MS$ handled the press, thru Win3.0, Win3.1, Win95,
> Win98, WinME (cringe)
> then to Win2K and WinXP. Now, in all fairness, once
> the lawsuit was
> enetered, MS$ finally began fixing the core, and
> Win2K and WinXP work
> pretty well. But even Win2K with all shots (17 major
> and minor revisions)
> doesn't match up to Linux on its best day.
>
> I was forced by clients to endure Windows, and if
> I'd had the money I'd
> shelled out for legal copies of Windows over the
> years, I'd have been able
> to marry and divorce a few more wives.
>
> So, for you youngsters that weren't there when it
> all happened, that's why
> some of us hate MS$ so much.
>
> --Bob
>


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