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Sean Conner wrote: > It was thus said that the Great Yossi Kreinin once stated: >> Can I ask you again - why did Windows 3.11, which had a totally >> dysfunctional parody on the concept of "kernel", won the desktop market, >> and Unix, which was 2 decades ahead in it's development, lost that market, >> despite it's amazingly well thought-out semantics? > > MS-DOS gained the lion's share of the market when it came out because of > a few reasons: 1) IBM 2) which legitimized home computers to the business > community 3) MS-DOS was the *cheapest* operating system for the IBM Personal > Computer [1] and 4) Lotus-123 was the killer app of the early MS-DOS world. Also, Unix didn't take over the market because there was no market to take over. AT&T (or Berkeley) weren't in the business of writing software for office use.There's stuff above here
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