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You think we would have worse computer hardware now (for the price) if Microsoft had been less successful? Why do you think that? I don't believe that without
by jongraehl 16y ago
You think we would have worse computer hardware now (for the price) if Microsoft had been less successful? Why do you think that? I don't believe that without MS/Intel we'd have only a bunch of Apple-model hardware manufacturers.
- CamperBob 16y agoTough to say. I don't see any reason why we wouldn't have ended up with a market fragmented between Apple, Commodore, Atari, IBM, TI, Sinclair, Radio Shack, and twenty other companies all selling essentially similar hardware with mutually quirky chipsets and incompatible OSes. That's certainly an accurate portrayal of the state of things in the era before MS-DOS. What would be some arguments to the contrary?