> Stil neither company knew which platform was going to be dominant when they started. I figure they usually weren't thinking about it that way yet. A lot of

> Stil neither company knew which platform was going to be dominant when they started. I figure they usually weren't thinking about it that way yet. A lot of what came later was unprecedented. > There are just vway too many little programs out there that people depend on. Hence the outrageous compatibility layer. I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to make a try at driver compatibility.