In article <pZytk.23024$N87.21011@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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notthisjoergsch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Phil Hobbs wrote:
> > Joerg wrote:
> >> JeffM wrote:
> >>>> Rich Grise wrote:
> >>>>> [...]Skype looks pretty interesting
> >>>>> [...]they don't have a Slackware package
> >>>>> and I didn't see any links to source where I can compile it here.
> >>>>> Anybody heard of either of those anywhere?
> >>>>>
> >>> Joerg wrote:
> >>>> What's slackware? Some kind of trousers?
> >>>> <duck and run ...>
> >>>
> >>> Actually, it's the oldest extant distro.
> >>>
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:t01sMEAV2jYJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions+1993-08+1994-*-*+1993-07+text+text+1995.*.*+without.cost+text+First.Public.Release+text+Debian.Project+SuSE.Linux+Slackware+text+text+Red.Hat.Linux
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I've wondered what the world would be like
> >>> if a big rock had fallen out of the sky and
> >>> impacted the Redmond campus during business hours ~April 1, 1995
> >>> (before W95 and just before Red Hat's release).
> >>
> >>
> >> Probably IBM would then still be in that biz because there wouldn't
> >> have been Senor Gates eating their lunch.
> >>
> >
> > OS/2 2.0 came out in April, 1992. A spectacular technical
> > success--multithreaded 32-bit OS, fully object-oriented GUI, a
beautiful
> > object model (SOM)...I could go on...but a stupid marketing failure.
I
> > still use OS/2 at least a few times a week, and I still love it.
> >
>
> Well, absolutely. I was sure hoping OS/2 would make it but they
> blundered so badly in the marketing area that it's hard to believe.
> Essentially they could have eaten Microsoft's lunch but instead simply
> walked away from the table.
>
They simply didn't have the money.
--
Keith
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