From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,a37a3c5a268def1f X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,28be7aeda09eac5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,28be7aeda09eac5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1077b1,28be7aeda09eac5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1077b1,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,28be7aeda09eac5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: f9437,a37a3c5a268def1f X-Google-Attributes: gidf9437,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,28be7aeda09eac5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 108437,3b880dcce5aebfe7 X-Google-Attributes: gid108437,public From: "Larry J. Elmore" Subject: Re: RFD: rmgroup comp.lang.eiffel, a defunct newsgroup dedicated to a dead non-language Date: 1996/12/13 Message-ID: <01bbe92c$a4a17c60$506700cf@ljelmore.montana>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 203995397 references: organization: CampusMCI newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,news.groups,soc.culture.jewish,comp.databases.object,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada,comp.edu,comp.object,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Doug Semler wrote in article ... > > If Unix isn't inferior to Windows, then why does the marketplace > consistently chose Windows over Unix? Are you a socialist who believes > the marketplace does not make the most optimal choices? It depends on what you are doing, what your requirements are. For many jobs, Windows just can't cut it. Most web servers run some flavor of Unix, as do most workstations. In these instances, it _is_ inferior. Many people would argue that the MacOS is clearly superior to Windows (vastly superior to Win 3.1), and in some ways, I agree with them. Of course, for a number of historical reasons, Windows has the market share and a vastly larger software base, so in that sense, it is superior (though mainly due to Apple's recently abandoned policy of trying to keep the whole Mac market to itself, thereby keeping 100% of a shrinking market share instead of a smaller percentage slice (but of increasing size) of an increasingly large pie). One does not have to be a socialist to lament the fact that Microsoft Windows is dominant on PC's. The code bloat of Win95 and slowdown in performance (offset by more memory, bigger hard drives and faster CPU's) is even worse than what has happened to many software packages. Because of historical realities, nothing is likely to displace it anytime soon. Just because it dominates the market doesn't mean that in many ways it's a pig!