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From: David Masterson <davidm@prism.kla.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 05 Feb 1997 10:34:43 -0800
Organization: KLA Instruments
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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Santry <doug@qnx.com> writes:
> Here I think you are dead wrong. Unix doesn't want to be on your
> secretary's desk, nor in every den in the world. It is for serious
> programming projects/research. It doesn't want, not is it well suited for,
> day to day office typing.
How quickly they forget...
Even AT&T didn't learn (or learned too late) that UNIX could have been an
excellent environment for the secretary's desk (and originally was) and could
have worked in the home market. However, AT&T failed to build a "single-user"
UNIX in the early 1980's (the UNIX-PC was still multi-user oriented) and so
ceded the market to Microsoft. AT&T had the expertise to battle Microsoft on
OS development, but it never realized the value of the golden-egg it had
sitting in its nest!
Ahh well...
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David Masterson KLA Instruments
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