Re: Dinner Plans for This First Day of November 2024?

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 2:25:54 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2024-11-04, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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You're probably trying to use newer Windows versions on older
computers. Normally, Windows is easy to use, that's why it became so
popular.

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Windows became popular, because people had to use it at work. It was the
cheap alternative to easier/better systems. Only a small percentage of
the
population wants to learn more than one system.
The bandwagon started rolling when "Gates Garbage" was chosen for IBM
business systems. The rest is history. The CP/M guy, Kildall, really
blew it in a meeting with the IBM guys. Otherwise, Kildall would be
Gates, and our Windows crowd would be loving CP/M. Ain't big glitches in
history grand?
At least, that's the way I remember it.

My understanding is that Microsoft developed PC-DOS for IBM for use in
their new IBM Personal Computers. IBM in the microcomputer game, brought
the personal computer into the big time.
And the rest is history. There was that little glitch of IBM allowing
Bill Gate the right to sell a version of the OS called MS-DOS. I guess
they figured that people didn't want to buy software without the
hardware. IBM's shortsightedness brought about the age of PC clones. My
first PC was a clone. And the rest is history.