"Jeroen Wenting" <jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl> wrote:
> no, they got their by clever marketing and generally having a product > that was easier to use for the average user than anything the > competition made and a lot more powerful than other products created > for their main target market. I agree with the first part of your sentence, the rest is BS of course. > Without Microsoft 90% of us would never have seen a computer more > powerful than a ZX-81 and 90% of the rest of us would never have used > only dumb mainframe terminals. More BS of course. > IBM's prediction that there would be 5 computers (not counting game > computers like the Comodores and Spectrums) by 2000 would likely have > come true. Yeah, sure, and we all would be living in caves. -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ I ploink googlegroups.com :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list