[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 3/5/2012 4:11 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article
> <7d184e4c-057c-445a-8444-18c4d4355098 at b1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, John
> Wallace<johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk>  writes:
>
>> The MS case was about abuse of monopoly, a single player with
>> significant market power in a specific market, which presumably isn't
>> the case for VMS in the general IT market.
>
> Yes, this argument is often used.  However, by saying that MS has a
> monopoly so we have to do a little something about it, one actually
> cements this monopoly in the minds of many people: if one can use
> another browser, then the monopoly will be tolerated etc.
>

There are other operating systems for the X86 platform; e.g. Solaris,
and Linux.

IBM used to offer a Windows substitute, I forget what it was called!
It never became popular.  I don't know if it's still available.

MicroSoft has pretty much won the desktop.  It took them a while
to make it work but they got there.  Windows XP SP-3 is stable as a 
table.  It does what I need.