Linux Dealt a rest BLOW by Apple !!!!!!! 2445

Stable? Worked? And you call that mulbreastasking?

Look, lets be honest, not whimsical. :-) Something that crashed with the regularity of Windows 3.1 and had no multiuser and no networking, was nothing but a joke, from a technical point of view. But Gates *never* intended to design the best OS the world has ever known. His stated purpose was to separate more money from customers than anyone had ever done before...

I'm *not* an academic, but I've been using TeX for the same reasons, and before that n-troff. I wanted precision. (Others, using Windows, seemed to mostly be fascinated with the ability to change fonts 20 times in a paragraph or two... :-)

The fact that you lacked the imagination to put it to use, does not mean it wasn't useful then.

Who would go without it today? (Why would *I* have gone without it then??? I have no idea why you were willing to...)

Messy? Why? Because it isn't Microsoft? That is not valid.

When you are not engaged in support for Windows, but just need to *use* an OS to get "real work" done, Windows is not a good choice. It never really was either.

Which is to say that I do not have a problem with you having chosen to earn a living by supporting Windows users. That makes sense. But lets not morph that into anything suggesting Windows had some technical advantage over better OS's. What it had was the *best* marketing and sales mind that existed, fully intent right from the start at becoming the world's wealthiest man.

Gates didn't make the best computer systems around, ever. He made the most money! Give Gates his due, but give the same due to Linux Torvalds for what he did too.

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