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Article #465Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's.
From: Bruce Simpson
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
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Ric Messier <Ric.Messier@Valley.Net> wrote: >John Long wrote: >> Of course, their *real* "killer app" was MSDOS, for a major hardware >> introduction. >> >I know this isn't strictly relevant to the discussion but it Microsoft >just generally pisses me off because they have taken over the market >with clearly inferior products. The worst thing is, that first 'killer >app' wasn't even theirs. It belonged to Digital Research and Microsoft >bought it out just in time to license it to IBM. Good marketing strategy >but then what did they do with it? At the risk of continuing an off-topic thread I have to correct you. MSDOS was not bought from DR by MS. Bill Gates did buy it and the license it to IBM but it was not purchased from DR. DR had their own competing product CP/M 86 but most of us who were around at that time remember that Gary was happier flying than talking to IBM :-( End of thread? *==[FREE-FAX GATEWAY INTO THE AUCKLAND NZ TOLL-FREE AREA]==* * FREE listings in NZ's largest WWW Business Directory * * http://www.actrix.gen.nz/biz/faxmail/ * *==========================================================*
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 1051ef,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid1051ef,public X-Google-Thread: f4600,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4600,public X-Google-Thread: 10da0c,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid10da0c,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed7b,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed7b,public X-Google-Thread: fe74c,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe74c,public X-Google-Thread: 114813,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid114813,public X-Google-Thread: 11488e,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid11488e,public From: bruce@faxmail.co.nz (Bruce Simpson) Subject: Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's. Date: 1996/01/04 Message-ID: <4cfnbq$le4@news.express.co.nz> X-Deja-AN: 133824449 references: <4a78cm$636@shellx.best.com> <4air6a$9ik@gateway.ctg.com> <4c76ba$5lq@news.enterprise.net> <4c7tek$cp7@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> <199601020734.XAA22585@clavinova.eng.sun.com> <Pine.BSD.3.91.960102094311.22513A-100000@usr4.primenet.com> <30EAA8DD.2640@Valley.Net> organization: FaxMail Technologies reply-to: bruce@faxmail.co.nz newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.sys.sinclair,rec.humor,talk.bizarre,best.www,comp.infosystems.www.misc,alt.culture.www,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc,comp.infosystems.www.users,alt.www.hotjava,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc,comp.infosystems.www.