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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-05 09:38:51 PST Message-ID: <3E663584.7090803@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:36:04 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1046885764 198.96.47.195 (Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:36:04 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:36:04 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34923 Date: 2003-03-05T12:36:04-05:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > For instance, none of Microsoft's competitors have had the brains to use > Ada. Microsoft cannot be held responsible for the stupidity of its > competitors, such as their use of Java. In fact, IBM did more to assure > Microsoft's monopoly than Microsoft. IBM spread the impression that only > Microchannel based PCs were suitable for OS2. > Bob Leif From what I understand, IBM was also stuck in assembly language for OS/2. This made it a huge task to move up to 32-bit platforms. You also just had to love those "O/S Error # 062.. have a nice day" type of messages (the "have a nice day" was implied ;-) Microsoft OTOH had the fortuitous luck(?) that they had a project going on, that later turned into NT, which was not stuck in assembly language, and was designed to be platform portable. The rest is history. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg