[Lancaster] [Fwd: Re: Twitter]

[Richard Robinson]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 09:54:55PM +0000, Martyn Welch wrote:
>
> My point is that this transition between "academic/military tool" to  
> "mass market medium" was greatly aided by Microsoft's massive  
> installation base in peoples homes. Had the home OS market been highly  
> fragmented (as with the Unices of the time) it would have been a lot  
> harder for companies such as Demon to distribute TCP/IP stacks on floppy  
> (from a pure capacity standpoint if not from the engineering cost of  
> providing TCP/IP stacks for may rather than essentially 1 OS).

Yes, I can see that. Mine is, that whoever was selling software at that time
was going to end up selling TCP/IP connectivity because people wanted it,
and if they hadn't someone else would have.

It Internets when it's time to Internet.

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem