[Klug-general] Bill Gates is a Funny, Smart Conman

[George Prowse]

Karl Lattimer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:32 +0000, Stuart Buckland wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 10:16 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:30 +0000, Karl Buckland wrote:
>>>> Peter Childs wrote:
>>>>> If Bill had not given us windows some body else would have given us 
>>>>> something else much much worse.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mind you looking back the Atari, Amiga and early Mac were better than 
>>>>> 3.1 in there day..... Saying that how much is my working Atari ST with 
>>>>> 1Mb of Memory and 20Mb hard disk worth now....
>>> Probably more than an IBM PC or clone running windows 2.0 (which I
>>> believe was the same generation as the first Atari ST)
>>>
>>>>> Peter.
>>>> It is certainly debatable whether anyone else would have provided 
>>>> something better. I'm glad it wasn't Apple, otherwise they'd be 
>>>> controlling our software AND hardware. Can you imagine how painful that 
>>>> might be?
>>> This has turned into quite an interesting causality question... What
>>> would the world have been like wrt operating systems if Sir Bill of
>>> Seattle didn't exist.
>>>
>>> Interesting links in the causal chain
>>>
>> <really big snip>
>>
>> If we're speculating....
>>
>> Had Gates and Microsoft never existed I wonder if OS/2 could have become
>> the dominant OS.  It was certainly big in business for a while.  
>>
>> Of course it could also be argued OS/2 would not have existed (as we
>> know it) without Microsoft.
> 
> OS/2 was the progression of DOS, if MS never existed as I said, IBM
> would probably have concentrated on UNIX as their platform for
> business. 
> 
> At least, that's what I recon... Although something similar in design to
> OS/2 was always gonna happen the infrastructure behind it would have
> been very different... To speculate on a name, I'd say around the early
> 90s IBM would probably have launched OSX :) as in an Operating System
> with X11...
> 
> K,
> 
> 
Without Bill Gates the BBC Micro and Chuckie Egg[1] would have conquered 
the world!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!

1 http://www.repton3.co.uk/chuckieegg.aspx