Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2/11/25 9:49 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:43:33 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    DOS turned out to be easier to deal with, so it won.
    Bill Gates also won because his lawyers sneaked-in a small-print item
    requiring IBM to always include his latest system along with their
    PCs - and the IBM lawyers MISSED it.

 There were a few other things going on like a suit against IBM by Digital
Research. DR won so IBM had to offer CP/M-86 but it was priced much higher
than DOS.
 CP/M-68K would have been interesting but there weren't too many platforms.
Lisa was a flop and the original Mac wasn't that great. Other than high
end systems that left Atari and Commodore, both of which had sort of a
non-serious reputation.
 Sprague Electric used Commodore PETs. Besides playing snake they used GPIB
for the peripherals, aka HPIB. You could hook them to HP instrumentation a
lot cheaper than buying a HP computer.

   There's really not too much diff between DOS and CP/M.
   DOS was a rip-off of CP/M. The biggest change was
   making pip "live". Thus was born "QDOS" - quick-n-dirty -
   and Bill bought that. His company was so small at the
   time it's likely DR didn't think it was worth pursuing.
   I too lament a relative lack of 68K boxes. It was a
   fine chip. It is said IBM considered it, but the
   prices - purchase + design - were more than it wanted
   for a product they didn't know would be successful.
   Not sure Motorola could have produced enough of them
   at the time either.
   Always wanted a PET ... but didn't have the $$$ back
   when they were popular. The C64 was "better" in a
   number of ways, but it didn't come in the stylish
   all-in-one case  :-)