Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 21:49:39 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Teams for Linux Message-ID: <20200509214939.aa081d47e0c5c8d7533c191e@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20200509160537.000068b7@seibercom.net> References: <b64d57e2-f4d7-7618-c711-6501a652a6ac@suszko.eu> <db68d8c4-cf3e-5a2f-63d9-f16f0b4f9559@lidstrom.eu> <fecdd83b-2061-a6c0-f927-c380cbc2b500@suszko.eu> <a0828175-6f75-92c4-ab48-bfd395e1a91d@suszko.eu> <ce6fe689-777f-7285-3483-76fb73ea3e82@suszko.eu> <f3a86f00-7e81-ec9d-2f29-c4d9bc3e0094@lidstrom.eu> <b28e6141-04bc-4f66-93e3-658929500c0c@suszko.eu> <CAM8r67Boe0dQt%2B1T8rdoubxNKaeDCaQ5UkY1nThM8UahF=WU3g@mail.gmail.com> <20200508113438.00006adc@seibercom.net> <CAM8r67DqhC37qoU99iBXPvSZAVVPezPCfKipOD-2xiig95-0TA@mail.gmail.com> <20200508185327.00007397@seibercom.net> <20200509063222.94d762e9751a32c693d73d2f@sohara.org> <20200509062517.00002c46@seibercom.net> <20200509121604.b385c38e8ad5518c9a571ef2@sohara.org> <20200509135024.d3ace507.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200509085553.00006a3a@seibercom.net> <20200509173218.7c1bec97.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200509125203.000036a2@seibercom.net> <20200509200216.10081e72@archlinux> <20200509160537.000068b7@seibercom.net>
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On Sat, 9 May 2020 16:05:37 -0400 Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > If Gates and Jobs were never born, it > might have been decades before home PC's became a reality, but we will > never know for certain. Oh we can be, there were home PCs before either of them started in business, they went into business to go after a market that was already there and expanding fast. Once CP/M opened up the small business market it was a dead cert that IBM would go there sooner or later. Microsoft only got big because they were the ones IBM went to for an OS without that deal Microsoft would have faded away and the IBM PC would have run CP/M-86 or something completely different. The factors driving the rise of the home and small business microprocessor based computer was the availability of microprocessors and associated components and Moore's law. There were plenty of people in the game, someone else would have risen to the top. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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