From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Improving Ada's Image
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:12:41 GMT
Date: 2004-06-25T16:12:41+00:00 [thread overview]
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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> The notion of people flocking to a significantly more reliable operating
> system has not been proven.
An operating system is a strange commodity. Very few customers want to buy
an operating system; rather, they want to buy applications, and they get an
operating system so that they can run their applications. Whether a new OS
succeeds or fails frequently depends on how well it supports current
applications. Why did MS Windows 3.x, that quirky supplimental OS that
suffered from many of the limitations of the undeflying DOS layer, succeed
while the much superior OS/2 fail? Because Win 3.x did a superior job of
running DOS applications, which was very important to the customer base at
the time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-25 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-24 14:21 Improving Ada's Image Nick Roberts
2004-06-25 0:20 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-06-25 11:30 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-25 14:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-06-25 16:12 ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
2004-06-26 20:26 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-28 13:41 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-28 14:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-29 11:39 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-29 11:48 ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-30 11:46 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-28 17:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-06-29 11:35 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-26 0:01 ` David Starner
2004-06-26 10:12 ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-26 11:32 ` Luke A. Guest
2004-06-26 15:20 ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-29 18:44 ` Luke A. Guest
2004-06-29 22:25 ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-27 16:40 ` Pylinius
2004-06-27 19:04 ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-26 11:53 ` David Starner
2004-06-26 15:21 ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-27 3:50 ` Robert I. Eachus
[not found] <20040604175015.9DE3E4C409B@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2004-06-04 20:38 ` Improving Ada's image Andrew Carroll
2004-06-05 12:49 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-05 17:07 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-05 20:39 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-05 22:18 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-05 23:40 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-06 8:48 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-06 21:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-06 22:30 ` Marius Amado Alves
[not found] ` <40C39B01.5060806@netcabo.pt>
2004-06-06 22:50 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-06 2:53 ` Robert C. Leif
2004-06-06 3:25 ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-06 11:54 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-06 18:21 ` Wes Groleau
[not found] ` <40C246A7.4070705@netcabo.pt>
2004-06-06 8:24 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-06 14:25 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-06 18:14 ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-07 17:04 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-07 19:06 ` Björn Persson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-30 11:46 Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics Per Dalgas Jakobsen
2004-05-31 20:55 ` Improving Ada's image Björn Persson
2004-06-01 0:41 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-01 11:23 ` Marin David Condic
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