Re: [cobalt-users] The Apple Raq

[Grant Stern <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/20/02 8:20 PM, "cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] The Apple Raq
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Grant Stern wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> And if you'd check the history books, you'd note that in 1981 Microsoft
> was the world's largest commercial vendor of Unix operating systems.
> (MS-Xenix for the TRS-80 Model II)
> 
> Yet they WERE soundly ignored.
> 
> Jeff
> -- 


Yes, but we know now what they didn't know then.  You can't sell a computer
at Radio Shack and get any respect!  No, seriously, if Bill Gates' site
wasn't down at the moment, I would pull up his famous (to anyone reading
slashdot) speech lamenting the death of Xenix.

But hey, M$ has done fairly well for themselves up until now (x-box, xp,
excrement propaganda).  I'm crossing my fingers for apple.
Gs