Except MS-DOS ultimately won. I grew up in Boston in the 80s, when giants like DEC and Data General were at the leading edge of computing. I remember mainframe

Except MS-DOS ultimately won. I grew up in Boston in the 80s, when giants like DEC and Data General were at the leading edge of computing. I remember mainframe folks complaining that "MS-DOS is so primitive! Here's a nickel, kid, buy yourself a real OS." By the 90s, when I was working on DOS/Windows software, I was inundated with resumes from engineers who had been laid off from those very same companies. And it wasn't until Windows XP in 2000 when most people moved away from DOS. I feel like every twenty years or so, kids look at the current computing landscape and say, "That's too complicated! I'm not going to learn all that--I'm just going to invent my own thing." DOS was that in the 80s, the Web in 2000. Maybe OpenClaw is that for the 2020s. AI is certainly going to reinvent everything. The DEC people were right about DOS: it was barely more than a toy. But we didn't abandon it and go back to the safety of VMS. Instead, we improved it until it had all the security and capabilities we needed. I don't know if OpenClaw is going to win or not, but if you remember MS-DOS, you wouldn't count it out.