[Info-vax] Happy 25th birthday Macintosh !

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <ce0adedd-dbd8-4c7d-805e-6554b2ee8d3b at g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
	"johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com" <johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com> writes:
> On Jan 26, 9:26 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>>
>> Doing a better job of tooting its own horn which so many of its
>> competitors (like BSD) didn't do then and still don't do today.
>> Which is why people buy Macs and swear they are using OS-X and
>> not Unix.  :-)
>>
>> bill
> Duh.  It's a mainstream product from a commercial entity.  Of course
> Apple is going to toot the hell out of it. Just because people here
> aren't used to that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. ;-)

Linux is not "a mainstream product from a commercial entity" but they do
a very good job of tooting, too.  That's my point.  It is not some kind
of technical superiority that decides who is the powerhouse in the market.
It is the squeeky wheel.  VMS was "a mainstream product from a commercial
entity".  Heard much tooting lately?  "But", you say, "VMS is not really
a mainstream product even if it comes from a commercial entity."  Well,
maybe if they had tooted their horn a bit more they still would be.

bill

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