bob.gool...@gmail.com (Bob goolsby) writes: > And what would have been the alternative OS for IBM to have backed? OS/2???
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#34 (slightly OT - Linux) Did IBM bet on the wrong OS?</a> at the beginning, a major market and gave ibm/pc big kick-start was large corporation mainframe terminal emulation market. however, there was growing home market ... with a large gaming component and small business market (somewhat SOHO ... or small private, closed LANs networks). Later, for the closed business environment there was growing use of scripting add-ons to business applications that provided various kinds of added value ... with open access to the basic system. This was analogous to gaming market where the application frequently took over all aspects of low-level machine operation. at the jan96 msdc held at mascone center ... a major theme was supporting the internet ... but the big banners all over the place were "preserving your investment" (basically all the BASIC/scripting capability would carry over to the internet environment). this sets things up for the large number of the integrity problems that are still going on today. Internet attachment appliance has a whole lot more security requirements from that of the small, closed (safe) business lan environment and totally different from the gaming markets. You don't want foreign applications from the internet to automatically execute on your machine ... and/or take over all aspects of your machine operation. Trying to meet the diametrically opposing security requirements on a single platform has been an enormous challenge (but frequently is at the root of the majority of the exploits in the world today). -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
