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| Thread ID: 38479 | 2003-10-08 09:10:00 | Horror strikes again for Microsoft...! what's the point? | yeah (2516) | Press F1 |
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| 181397 | 2003-10-09 02:45:00 | When was the last time IBM designed an OS??? Microsoft is up there because of it's software. IBM is up there because of it's hardware. Hardware and software as you might have realised are 2 different things. IBM without Microsoft would be nothing, Microsoft without IBM would be nothing either. As for the revolutionised thing, what system did you run on your first computer? If it was a Mac you have to admit you didn't like it. |
yeah (2516) | ||
| 181398 | 2003-10-09 03:13:00 | >>I think you will find that IBM are bigger than Microsoft. Maybe I have been influenced by Microsoft propaganda :D; I thought Microsoft had a bigger annual turnover than IBM. Its largely academic really. They are both large companies in the IT industry. I remember when IBM was king mainframe supplier. I worked on Unisys machines which had approx 6% market share. |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 181399 | 2003-10-09 03:18:00 | >>When was the last time IBM designed an OS??? I think you will find that Microsoft and IBM both worked on Windows NT before they fell out. OS/2 could have been pretty successful but Windows had got its foot in the door with the pc buying public. By all accounts the AS/400 was(is) a very good machine and I presume IBM did the OS for it. |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 181400 | 2003-10-09 03:25:00 | IBM don't write new OSs for their bug business systems; they do the proper thing and improve the ones they've got. The OSs on the big iron are direct developments from OS360 which was designed in the 60s. Because the OS is rented, IBM have a great incentive to improve it rather than make a "new" one every year. Because the rented software is maintained by IBM they have an interest in making it bug-free. The supercomputers would require an OS ... though it probably wouldn't be as bloated as Windows XP. :D IBM actually spend a lot of money on research. They are a big company. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 181401 | 2003-10-09 03:35:00 | It's fairly safe to say that if Microsoft wasn't around, then there wouldn't be the millions of internet users that there are these days. Think back to 1993; there wasn't even one tenth the amount of internet users then as there are now. Microsoft didn't revolutionise the functions of computers, but they revolutionised the population of computer users. |
agent (30) | ||
| 181402 | 2003-10-09 04:00:00 | When was the last time you designed a webpage or a program or sent an email using Linux or Mac...it's not that easy is it? Well... Both myself and my wife´s computer run nothing but Linux and we send hundreds of email messages. In fact there is nothing yet that we can not do using Linux. |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 181403 | 2003-10-09 04:10:00 | > In fact there is nothing yet that we can not do using Linux Can you use Windows [without paying for something like Win4Lin]? :p |
agent (30) | ||
| 181404 | 2003-10-09 08:42:00 | Ever heard of wine and wineX? :P | mark.p (383) | ||
| 181405 | 2003-10-09 10:13:00 | Of course I have. But you have to pay for the version that allows you to run Windows as an OS in it's entirety on top of Linux, in my understanding. ?:| | agent (30) | ||
| 181406 | 2003-10-09 10:30:00 | CVS! | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
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