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Re: The Joy of Java
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In list.cypherpunks, [email protected] writes:
> (No cryptorelevance, but neither is anything else on this list anymore)
(but then, some of us have no life... )
> My recollection is that when IBM first started selling IBM PC, they
> offered a choice of (at least) 3 operating systems right from the
> start: UCSD p-system, CP/M-86 or PC-DOS. IBM didn't do anything
> to prompte PC-DOS over the other two. It won fair and square in
> the marketplace because the other two were even worse crap. (Later
> versions of CP/M-86 got much better.)
Also remember that UCSD P-system was around $800 and CP/M-86 was over
$100, while PC-DOS was somewhere under $50. This was the early-mid
80's, and the dealer had just hit the purchaser for $1200-$1500 for the
computer with _no_ OS included. It's no surprise that the least
expensive OS won.
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