The Commanding General for AFLC at Wright-Patterson AFB had the call whether the Air Force would go with MS or Apple. He chose MS. IMHO had he gone with MS, then all of the U.S. military and U.S. government would have gone with Apple. To keep in step with the federal government, state and local governments would have gone with Apple. Businesses who did business with government would have gone with Apple. The U.S. business man would have wanted his home computer to be what he had at work...Apple.
This is called "trickle-down" and has shown to be how technology works in the U.S. Walt/K5YFW -----Original Message----- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Salomao Fresco Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:39 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Movement toward open digital software? Hi! Just my 2 cents: Apple had no role in any of these industry defining machinations. The only place they were on the map at ALL was in desktop publishing (which they continued to dominate for years). And still do! lol Regards On 1/12/07, Peter G. Viscarola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you don't care about the history of Windows vs Unix, you can hit delete now. This has nothing to do with ham radio as far as I can tell. > > It was an MS vs Apple battle not MS vs Unix. Or perhaps MS > DOS vs IBM PCDOS. MS developed Windows and IBM didn't have an > equal. So MS kind of got it bby default. > I'm sorry, but I don't agree. Apple was never a serious contender. Certainly not in the corporate or government marketplace. The timeframe when Microsoft's major consolidation occurred was between 1989 and 1994. Remember that Windows was developed by MS for IBM, and MS was on track to develop an entirely new replacement for Windows for IBM (what MS eventually released as Windows NT) when the "great scism" between IBM and MS occurred. Further, while MS was wildly working to get Windows established (prior to and just around the Windows 3.1 timeframe), Unix forces were attempting to align behind a single Unix flavor under the banner of the Open Software Foundation. This died due to the usual squabbles and politics. During this time US government procurment was requiring Posix (IEEE 1003) compliance... Which required Unix. To combat this, Microsoft created specific facilities in Windows NT to accommodate Posix programs. This allowed Windows to be sold into US Government markets that were "Posix only." Against this backdrop, the proprietary systems vendors (Digital, Sun (Apollo), HP, and also IBM) were spending vast sums of money to comete with each other, but made it up easily by charging $20K-$50K per workstation. Apple had no role in any of these industry defining machinations. The only place they were on the map at ALL was in desktop publishing (which they continued to dominate for years). de Peter K1PGV Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Our other groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 Yahoo! Groups Links -- Cumprimentos Salomão Fresco CT2IRJ If it works... dont fix it! Esta mensagem foi escrita com electrões 100% reciclados.
