On Jul 29, 12:46 am, Christian Catchpole <christ...@catchpole.net> wrote: > In 1987 my Amiga outperformed PCs, could preemptively multitask and > had a unix like operating system.
Personally, I think that the greatest barrier to computing development has been the continuing success of 1960s operating system, Unix. It's a monumental barrier to entry for anyone but a geek. It's compounded by the fact that the existence of so many Linux variants now make it all but impossible for any novel operating system to enter the market. > But DOS and Windows 95 took hold, > not because of technical merits but because of the manufacturing model > which didn't lock it to one company. (And because the it was cheap and made usable computing available to many more people than previously.) > Apple suffered the same fate for > a long time. They have now finally turned around as they can piggy > back on enough technology and standards, that they can build machines > that people can actually use. They can use Apple machines provided they use them in ways Apple approve of. Apple's recent update to iTunes to prevent non-Apple mp3 players from syncing with it is symptomatic of Apple's world view, compared to which all Microsoft's shenanigans (real or, more often, imaginary) are mild by comparison. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
