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Article #2021Re: The meaning of life, as it relates to hacking.
From: Jon Watte
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1989 21:04
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1989 21:04
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In article <71@zds-ux.UUCP> gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason) writes:
>In article <RANG.89Dec22001823@derby.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>>(the economy). Without MS-DOS, it wouldn't have been accepted nearly
>>so quickly, or been as easy to program....
EASY to program ????
Tell me, how many TSR's do you have ?
How many of them say "Load Me Last" ?
ANd how many times have you found that two different applications
use the same interrupt vector ?
Thought so.
At least there's a supported way to do this on the mac.
>Who knows, maybe the industry would have standardized around something
>more like a Sun, or a Mac. Or maybe growth would have been much
>slower with a fragmented market of incompatible machines. We just
>don't and can't know.
But the standard of the machines would have been much higher, since
the competition would have been harder. And Apple WOULD have had a
better position ... :-)
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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
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Subject: Re: The meaning of life, as it relates to hacking.
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Date: 29 Dec 89 21:04:33 GMT
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