Re: [cobalt-users] The Apple Raq

[Bill Campbell <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:51:41PM -0400, Grant Stern wrote:
>> Why does everyone keep going on about the APPLE!!!
>
>Because, in case you haven't been following developments (for the last three
>years) Apple today is THE WORLDS LARGEST PROVIDER OF UNIX OPERATING SYSTEMS
>and if you use *nix, that's pretty hard to ignore.

Not really.  In the mid 1980s, Radio Shack was the largest provider of *ix
operating systems with their Model 16/6000 running Xenix, and look where
that got them (of course extreme mismanagement of their computer marketing
people didn't help :-).  The computer industry in the U.S. is full of the
corpses of companies that have built their businesses on *ix platforms, but
haven't survived for one reason or another.

Bill
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