[K12OSN] OT: News article

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On Fri, 12 May 2006, Graham wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> >On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 03:40, Martin Woolley wrote:
B> >>On Thursday 11 May 2006 02:33, Doug Simpson wrote:
> >>>"There's no innovation that we've seen come out of - at least Linux,"
> >>>Ballmer said Tuesday. "Linux is a clone of a 30-years-old operating
> >>>system (called Unix)."
> >
> >You are missing a large and painful chunk of history here. The
> >PC's of the 80's ran MSDOS which does next to nothing and what
> >
> I suppose you have to be an old bugger, but Les is so right.  Yes in
> latter days you can certainly find fault with MS's business practices in
> terms of maintaining the Monopoly, but it was IBM, SCO, HP, SGI and
> their greed and shortsightedness that basically handed the monopoly to
> MS on a plate.  All of the above had there own *ixes in the eighties.
> IBM had AIX, SCO-Xenix, HP - HPUX and SGI IRIX... All priced way out of
> range of the average PC User.   Heh at least they're still
> significant... In the late sixties I worked for NCR!  :)

and I used a Victor  !!

of course there was always CP-M

Bob

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