Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[Scott Stevens]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:42:36 +0200
Wouter <cctech at retro.co.za> wrote:

> Hi all
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> >Mind you if somebody came  up with a better OS when the 386's
> >came out, would we have windows today?
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> It's called "Linux". And yea, we still have Windoze... :-)
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> W
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It was also called Coherent, and OS/2.  And DesqView (and in
particular DesqView/X, which has almost completely disappeared
from history) also made a good run for it.

And part of the reason we have Windoze now is that Apple drove all
the 'small players' out of the GUI market with litigation.  They
'plowed the field' for Microsoft, so to speak.

Linux didn't really happen along in any big way until the '386
systems were very mature (and actually, a big part of Linux
'taking hold' for a number of us was when the first generation
'386 machines became 'spare' enough to be almost free, and hence
perfect for putting experimental OSes on).


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