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Article #467Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's.
From: Fast Eddie
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:00
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south@speakeasy.org (Scott Soderstrom) wrote: >In article <30EAA8DD.2640@Valley.Net>, 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 Digital Research wrote CP/M which was the predecessor to MS-DOS. Microsoft bought MS-DOS from someone else. Also, Digital Research was the prefered vendor that IBM wanted to buy the OS from but they blew it and Mr. Bill grabbed the opportunity. -Ed Fladung
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ed7b,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed7b,public X-Google-Thread: f4600,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4600,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 1051ef,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid1051ef,public X-Google-Thread: 11488e,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid11488e,public X-Google-Thread: 10da0c,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid10da0c,public X-Google-Thread: fe74c,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe74c,public X-Google-Thread: 114813,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid114813,public From: fladung@emf.net (Fast Eddie) Subject: Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's. Date: 1996/01/11 Message-ID: <4d3in1$4kv@ccnet2.ccnet.com> X-Deja-AN: 134761505 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> <south-0401960415520001@blv-pm0-ip25.halcyon.com> organization: CCnet Communications (510-988-7140 guest) reply-to: fladung@emf.net 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.