On 17/06/06 15:36 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime Today, j cobbled together some glyphs to say:
taking gui to the masses. .. making things simpler that what they would have been
Apple did that
No they didn't. Apple took gui to the rich and l33t, not to the masses where it really mattered.
That set of people got a somewhat decent GUI with Windows 3.11. Which was way after the PC became popular.
make computing more affordable and relilable ... to make lif e a lot more easir by improving the interfaces to computers an making them more useful to common man without putting any efforts in learning...
All of which would have been a lot cheaper and easier and reliable had it not been for the aforementioned Billybaba and his cohorts' methods.
I doubt it. The cost of computing was heading up when Microsoft entered the market. It was their self serving deal with IBM that turned costs downward by allowing clones to run the same software that IBM was running at a fraction of the cost.
The clones would have run other versions of DOS. DR-DOS, PC-DOS... The cost of computing was brought down by competition in the hardware market, primarily sponsored by Compaq.
And Microsoft definitely made the computing world less reliable. Blue screens of death?
Devdas Bhagat