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From: Martin Gregorie
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:00

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nxh...@leonard.anu.edu.au (Nathan Hand) wrote:

>Terminator-X (ter...@headquarters.net) wrote:
>
>: History sucks. I don't know much about it and don't want to. It is
>: boring. All I need to know is computers. I am never going to apply any
>: history to my life at all nor politics.
>
>Those who do not know history are doomed to relive it... poorly.
>
As shown well by the computer industry:

- First there were mainframe O/S horrors such as OS/360 and its
predecessors, but some people did better and built George II, Multics,
and MCP

- then minicomputers were invented and the state of o/s art reverted
to the likes of RSTS. Once again some people did better and came up
with UNIX (in 1970/71) and TOPS

- then microcomputers were invented and  - you guessed it - the O/S of
choice turned out to be CP/M (based on RSTS, in 1978, yet!).
QDOS/MS-DOS is an obvious rip-off of CP/M rather than something more
advanced.


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From: gregorie@see.sig.for.address (Martin Gregorie)
Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
Date: 1997/02/03
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