-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In list.cypherpunks, dlv@bwalk.dm.com 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. - -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy@cybrspc.mn.org PGP Public Key fingerprint = 31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54 13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6 Key available from pubkey@cybrspc.mn.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMYg6vhvikii9febJAQFIYwQAhf/NINh9Qmdc2Et9gflbwg8Lg38e7FJQ znkK43Qz2ySYgPy6l9lkNeJqP0kCjAiObhLI8BWM88BU9/Q64Kp99qhoEnbZmxfy ezAmRpNNeviro+Cj0wvGElbwo7UQ3q8347BuWaOjXCTE5zyELifZPGONTd019oz1 NrmWo8Y9P10= =K9m8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----