Invisible wrote:
> Gail Shaw wrote:
> 
>> And how much software did you buy before MS was around? Don't confuse
>> correlation with causation.
> 
> Quite a lot. (Well, my parents anyway, not me personally. I didn't have 
> any money...)
> 
> We had premptive multitasking operating systems and large C compilers 
> and ray tracers and modellers and music sequencing software and complex 
> computer games and so on and so forth.

And what machine were you running this stuff on?

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What large C compilers and music sequencing software was running before 
MS was writing software?

>> I'm emphasising small, because small software is 'easy' to write.
> 
> I don't really see how the software M$ writes is any "bigger" or "more 
> complex" than what existed before.

Uh... You don't think Windows XP is bigger or more complex than the 
mainframe OSes of the mid-70s? It's not bigger and more complex than CP/M?

> Similarly, have you *ever* seen Linux crash? 

Regularly. 3 or 4 times last week alone. On a machine where Windows 
never crashes. Sure, go ahead, blame the hardware.

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