Subj : Re: Atari 400; meh.
To   : Mhansel739
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Jul 30 2023 08:15:00

-=> Mhansel739 wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Mh> Yes, well that is thanks to the marketing machine we call Microsoft.
 Mh> They marketed and pushed DOS and Windows and made deals with "all" the
 Mh> PC manufacturers to be the default OS on their machines. And when you
 Mh> have a set of new people that have little to no IT experience, that is
 Mh> all they know. Good, bad, or otherwise, DOS and Windows become the
 Mh> defacto standard.

  I just read a book called "Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create
  Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft".

 It outlines the journey to create Windows NT 3.5, which was the basis
 for the Windows we know today. Interesting read, interesting times. I'd
 forgotten how they'd taken their efforts with OS/2 and made it look and
 feel like Windows 3, even though it was completely different
 underneath.





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