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In article <803377521snz@musical.demon.co.uk>,
David Webber  <dave@musical.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Nowadays the computer is closer to being the "universal machine" that
>Turing (I think it was) foresaw that it would become.  But to become
>that it has had to develop operating systems that the majority of non-
>expert users can get to grips with - and that seems to mean GUI's.

Apple and Commodore managed to do GUIs that didn't require 120 MHz Pentiums
to get decent performance. AmigaOS did useful real-time multitasking on a
7 MHz 68000 with 512K RAM. MacOS ran in 128K.

Microsoft isn't successful because of any technical competance. They just
got lucky being chosen by IBM for the PC. And once they became the standard
they were able to lock everyone in, because you need Windows to run Windows
software and you need to run Windows software because that's what there is.

It's a natural monopoly.

>And of course my programs are so good
>that this will persuade  millions more to buy Windows <g>.

That's the reason people buy Windows. The software.

What you need to do is write for WABI and Wine. Then your software will still
work under Windows, but it'll also work under the emulators.
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