27 Oct
2006
27 Oct
'06
7:33 p.m.
I was in love with TRSDOS and also felt betrayed when MSDOS muscled
its way in with a big pocket full of dollars and, as far as I was
concerned at the time, an inferior product. I dont know if TRSDOS
could have evolved to meet the competition or not, but it never had
the chance to try because Uncle Bill had too much clout through IBM.
Teaming up with IBM is what made MSDOS. It gave them the money to
force their monopoly on everyone. I now use Unix and have forsaken
the whole world of MSDOS. My wife wont let go though because she
doesnt want to learn a new thing and that is what makes Uncle Bill
safe in his position a worlds richest man. I think it is something
like the US being the only superpower. It cant be dismantled now
because the clout is there to always be ahead of ALL competitors.
Once a certain size is exceeded, its like a black hole, its all over
for the rest of the competition, they just get swallowed. Of
course...the dinosaurs were once kings of the world too. But it took
a meteor the size of Manhattan to change it.
That could happen to the USA and Uncle Bill as well, I guess.
On 10/27/06, Warren Wolfe <wizard at voyager.net> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 20:57 -0500, Jim Isbell, W5JAI
wrote:
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
OK, where did TRSDOS fit in? It was before MSDOS
as far as sale to the public.
It was its own universe, Jim. The links and questionable parentage
of the original version of DOS are tied directly to CP/M, which was the
first O/S for personal computers that any significant number of
businesses embraced. And, Windows came out of the DOS world, and now
dominates as few products have dominated before. (Note: I am NOT
claiming this is a GOOD thing.)
From what I can tell, TRSDOS was not a rip-off of anyone's software,
and nobody bothered to rip it off, so it's pretty much out of the world
of O/S scandal. It actually was pretty decent, and had a few ideas of
merit that didn't make it into the mainstream world for a while. It was
just totally tied to Radio Shack computing, and suffered a mortal wound
when IBM came out with their PC. No fault of its own.
Peace,
Warren E. Wolfe
wizard at voyager.net