Re: C#, .Net, and Mono

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: C#, .Net, and Mono
Date: 20:47 on 29 Dec 2006
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.
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