POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The Babbage Flaw : Re: The Babbage Flaw Server Time
4 Sep 2024 13:22:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Babbage Flaw  
From: Darren New
Date: 14 May 2010 12:40:30
Message: <4bed7cfe$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> 
>> Now, some of these may be out of business, but that's not really to 
>> the point, because they *were* competition when they were around, and 
>> they couldn't compete.
> 
> Couldn't compete with MS products? Or couldn't compete with MS's 
> underhanded not-strictly-legal anti-competetive practices? That is the 
> operative question.

Given that most of those OSes ran on machines where MS-DOS didn't, I'd say 
the former.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.


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