Re: [NTLK] [OT] It's MS-DOS 6.22 day!

I disagree. Microsoft's obsession with market dominence -- call it an
irrational fear of competition -- has destroyed much of the creative
activity that ought to be happening around Windows. Instead, most of the
new ideas come from Apple. The rest come from the FOSS community.

I agree with your position that separation of hardware and software is a
good thing. The C language gave us platform independent system code, and
Unix gave us a platform independent OS. FreeBSD is one of the more
adaptable implementations of BSD Unix, and that is what you find when you
peel away the pretty Aqua UI of OS X. In case you hadn't heard, OS X is
built on top of FreeBSD.

It is not easy to set out to build a platform independent version of
something so radically new as the Newton OS. The developers were forced to
keep the hardware and software closely connected in order to achieve their
goals. There is no reason why the Newton OS could not have evolved to
become platform independent. Apple did show some interest in such an
arrangement; the early version at least was licensed to Sharp and Motorola
and I think they both released products.

The surest way to disassociate software from the success or failure of any
one hardware vendor is to make the software free. As in Open-Source.

Gary Dunn
Open Slate Project
osp@aloha.com

> I was holding myself because this is a very OT thread, but I would like to
> break a lance in favour of microsoft, as everyone that has voiced his
> opinion was rather... negative.
> Although Microsoft has become almost a monopoly, the thruth is that thanks
> to microsoft the PC market is as thriving as it is. By licencing the
> Operating System to clone manufacturers, we avoided precisely what happened
> with the Commodore Amiga, the Atari ST or the Apple Macintosh, -or the
> newton- and that is to tie the software to the hardware.
>
> That way even if IBM stops making PC, Dell or another company will be
> manufacturing it, as long as a software company provides the necessary
> software.
>
> The computer market would be rather different if Microsoft wasn't here.
>
> 2cts by
> Abraham Limpo Martinez
>
> 2009/6/23 Miro Copic <miroc@verizon.net>
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> >
> > On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:17 PM, M. Horvat wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >> So MD-DOS 6.22 [sic] day is over. Can you explain this joke?
> > >
> > > Of course. It was MS-DOS 6.22 day because 6/22 = 6.22, and 6.22 was
> > > the last standalone version of MS-DOS to be released - 7.0, 7.1, and
> > > 8.0 were all distributed together with Windows 95, 98, and
> > > Millennium Edition respectively.
> >
> > Why is that a joke?
> >
> > It was a rather sad day to remember...
> >
> > Best, M.
> >
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