Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 18:17:45 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu (William Wong) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Message-ID: <199708080847.SAA01410@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708080822.BAA09165@wiley.csusb.edu> from William Wong at "Aug 8, 97 01:22:30 am"
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William Wong writes: >> >> William Wong writes: >>> >>> Do we remember when Bill Gates stated just a few years back that no one >>> could possibly utilize all 640k of memory on the original IBM PC? >>> Unfortunately, history does repeat itself even to those who do remember >>> the past. :( >> >> If you think back a little harder, you'll recall that Bill Gates >> wasn't the bogey man back then. It was IBM. And they were the people >> who introduced the 640 kB limit. I was using 86-DOS before the >> introduction of the PC, and it had a 1 MB limit. >> >> Isn't it comforting to see that even Big Blue wasn't able to continue >> ruling the world? > > Yeah, but MS is the one that popularized the IBM PC. Besides, it's > more fun picking on Bill. :) Nothing good seems to come out of MS. > MS just goes around absorbing technology from smaller companies. Well, quite honestly, if there were no likes of Bill around to pick on, I'd be a whole lot happier. But the comfort to which I refer is the fact that monoplies tend to trip over their own complacency. When the computer market becomes more sophisticated again, Microsoft will either adapt or lose market share. I suspect the latter. > I actually have more respect for IBM; Their R&D isn't all that > bad... Right. And we thought *they* were the enemy :-) Greg
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