Re: [LUG] today's meets and some observations etc.

[Grant Sewell <dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> julian Said
>
> > If others had come up with a competitor
> > product to DOS when MS were still in their infancy then we would have a
> > more even market today.  Sadly it didn't happen. 
>
> I thought they did, there was DOS, DRDOS and MSDOS.  I think once  Microsoft 
> got the market share they put "things" in their OS so the others would not 
> allways work, forcing the user down the MS path.
>
> Peter

And if I remember correctly, they carried on this practise into the early Windows 
systems.  You would hear of people having problems installing Windows 3 onto a 
machine with anything other than MSDOS.  And also some Windows based applications 
were targeted: In some cases installing an office suite that was not MS would cause 
one or two "glitches".

<sarcasm>Oh, how times have changed</sarcasm>

-- 
Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy.

--
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the
message body to unsubscribe.