Re: The meaning of life, as it relates to hacking.

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From: Jacob Gore
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 17:33

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/ gnu.misc.discuss / rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) / Dec 21, 1989 /
>   Actually, a good argument could be made that Microsoft has helped
> out the economy tremendously.  The IBM PC, though it's not the most
> powerful computer in the world, has been quite a boon to businesses
> (the economy).  Without MS-DOS, it wouldn't have been accepted nearly
> so quickly, or been as easy to program....

EASY TO PROGRAM???  Compared to what?  Maybe a Mac (I've never programmed a
Mac, but I'm yet to meet anyone who liked programming it).

IBM did a very short-sighted thing by choosing the 8088 as the center of
the PC, and Microsoft made it worse by patching their CP/M clone to make
MS-DOS.  It's no accident that it took many years before compilers and
linkers appeared that don't put the programmer in a straightjacket.

Jacob
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