> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz > (Seymour J.) > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 4:51 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? > <snip> > > >Otoh, without Windows, who really would have been using the Internet > > Pretty much everybody who is now. Without windows they'd be running, > e.g., OS/2, MacOS, Linux.
What, no mention of CP/M-86? I don't think that MP/M ever had a x86 version. I do remember running Pick on my XT clone. Now that was a weird beastie. And you totally ignored things like the Amiga. I loved what I saw of that software. I wish now that my boss at the time hadn't convinced me to go with an XT clone. Also IBM Instruments(?) had a Motorola 68000 based system. And the joys of the ATT 3B series of machines cannot be overstated. <VBG> Man, I loved that era of many different choices. Now, it is basically Wintel. Windows is so entrenched that, IMO, it will only be shaken loose by a major change in paradim. Perhaps a "super tablet", which are dominated today by Android and iOS. I don't know about the new Windows 8 tablets. If they run like Windows PCs, people are not going to like them. They'll be overpriced, under performing (bloat), and the software will cost too much. The Andoid SDK is totally cost free. So anybody with a PC can develop Android code. I cannot imagine MS "giving away" their SDK. Unless they are "clever" and begin with a zero cost SDK, then start increasing the price if Windows on tablets become a majority. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
