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CypherX wrote:
> "David D" <Idler@davegeardownton.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> "CypherX" <cypherx@nym.alias.net> wrote in message
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>> > "David D" <Idler@davegeardownton.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> > > "Chris Game" <see.text@message.body> wrote in message
>> > > news:MPG.17a3e9af7ad0a5d5989cc1@news.ntlworld.com...
>> > > > In an earlier post, Den said...
>> > > >
>> > > > > why does Billy Gates think all PCs wanna connect to the web.
>> > > >
>> > > > He understands the market?
>> > > >
>> > > Bullshit.........He controls the market, but I hope, for God sake, not
>> for
>> > > too long!
>> >
>> > Did quite a lot to create the market too by all accounts.
>> >
>> > CypherX
>> >
>> Come on, greed prevails!
> 
> And we've all reaped the benefits with computers, software and all the
> related technologies that are now commonplace and affordable.
> 
> He is merely reaping the rewards that helping us all to communicate and
> trade with greater freedom and ease bring.
> 

Yes, but the monopoly that MS have in the PC market has allowed them to 
actually limit the rate of progress of the PC platform.

Don't believe me? Well consider this:

Last year, 2001, MS *finally* produced a 32-bit OS for the mass market. 
They produced their first 32-bit OS, NT3.1, in 1993. Intel produced the 
first 32-bit x86 CPU in ....... 1983. So it took MS 10 years to come up 
with a 32-bit OS and EIGHTEEN years to come up with a mass market 32-bit 
OS. Hardly a stunning rate of progress, is it?

Also, they influenced Intel's chip designs. All x86 CPUs upto the 
Pentium had, in effect, an 8086 CPU embedded. With the Pentium Pro Intel 
removed some of this 8086 silicon and emulated its functionality in 
microcode; the result was that 16-bit programs ran slower on a P-Pro 
than on a Pentium of the same clock speed. With the P-II that 8086 
silicon reappeared, and even today your 2.xGHz P4 has an 8086 embedded 
in it, such is MS's obsession with backward compatibility.

> Besides, If I could have done it I would.  Wouldn't you?
> 
> CypherX
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