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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,985762be6fa32f22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!0f19ed38!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <2k06c5F16ql15U2@uni-berlin.de> <40DC0CA6.5040704@noplace.com> <06OtmLncSDdl@eisner.encompasserve.org> Subject: Re: Improving Ada's Image X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:12:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.203.203.234 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1088179961 151.203.203.234 (Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:12:41 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:12:41 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1891 Date: 2004-06-25T16:12:41+00:00 List-Id: "Larry Kilgallen" wrote in message news:06OtmLncSDdl@eisner.encompasserve.org... > 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.