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Article #2486Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: Martin Nisshagen
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 01:03
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 01:03
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Nathaniel Barmore wrote: > that's for certain. i remember a while back a survey/poll in Byte or > PCMag that determinmed that there were fewer copies of Windows 3.1 actually > being used than there were Macs. this would have been in about 1st half '94, > when the total DOS market share was about 10X the Mac share. while it might > not have been accurate, it certainly seems to reflect my experiences. i don't > know anybody who has windows of any version on their home computer. if they > wanted a GUI, they bouth a Mac or OS/2. more relevantly, a friend just bought > a PC, and it was cheaper to get it with '95 preloaded than without anything. > so the first thing he did when he got it plugged in was reformat the harddrive. > then he installed linux. several of my friends got PCs with windows 3.1 > preloaded, and the first thing they did was free up several hundred Megs o > drive by deleting it. [flame mode on (at least a little bit :) ] This is the real problem with all Mac:s. They also comes with a crapOS just like windows, but in this case You can't reformat the drive and install some decent OS (like OS/2, NT or Unix). You have to trash your entire computer! [ flame mode off ] I guess the flexibility in both hardware and software was one of the most important thing that let the PC to win over the Mac:s in the long run. m a r t i n n -- Martin Nisshagen MTS Technology, Sweden martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mn5.swip.net!usenet From: Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!! Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 03:03:57 +0200 Organization: - Message-ID: <308C3B7D.3067@mts.se> References: <451aje$flj@orion.cybercom.net> <46319v$8f9@hp5.online.apple.com> <Pine.A32.3.91.951018210734.76170A-100000@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> <DGq4ss.At1@news.zippo.com> <468661$fij@pellew.ntu.edu.au> <46dtd3$2pp@spool.cs.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup101-047.swipnet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1N (Windows; I; 32bit)