On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
Being 'first' doesn't imply they were 'alone'. You misrepresent reality to your own end.
Define your market or relevant niche, with specificity.
Computers intended for single-user interactive processing. When looking at cost/performance/feature for the OS'es current in the late 60's none were really effective (I'm excluding Language-in-ROM machines - not that any of them were stellar in performance). What would one day become engineering workstations and personal computers (which are the same thing today). A new class of machines was coming out (my first machine was a PDP 8e running BASIC) and while there were plenty of tools they tended to be vertical in intent or else not general purpose enough for this sort of computing. Look at the first couple of years of Byte or Dr. Dobb's for more specific examples (remember Godbout?) in the personal computer market. Which happens to be one of the primary reasons Unix was developed, there were no realistic choices in the market for this paradigm. So a solution can trotting along. We're facing the same sort of thing today with respect to 'grid computing' and such. All the current OS'es (Linux incl.) are focused on the old style of solutions. We'll also find that our current views of what IP means will be found to be as antiquated. -- ____________________________________________________________________ The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------