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Re: If Linux came before Windows...

On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:44:41 +0100
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ____/ Linonut on Saturday 07 July 2007 18:37 : \____
> 
> > After takin' a swig o' grog, Why Tea belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> >   
> >> Will it be a different world today if Linux came before Windows?
> >> Will Linux be able to lead the PC revolution like Windows?  
> > 
> > It is not useful to speculate.
> > 
> > Undoubtedly there would have been other assholes to fill the void
> > left by Bill Gates.  
> 
> If it were not him, it would be another greedy man. Jobs and Ellions
> aren't much better.
> 
> > By the way, Windows led no PC revolution.  If any product of
> > Microsoft did that, it would be DOS.  
> 
> Wasn't cost a revolution? Don't forget where DOS actually came from,
> just like BASIC. 

It was that the IBM PC came with MS DOS... That's all... 

UNIX was thought of as too user unfriendly. MS DOS was simple enough
for beginners to understand.

I think it had general commands that users to relate to like 'format',
'chdir', 'del' etc, comparing these to UNIX mnemonics I can agree.
Although it might just be that's its closer to what people today use in
language, had UNIX been more popular then, perhaps we would call disks
being an 'fs' rather than formatted.

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