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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (14233)11/18/1997 3:30:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton  Read Replies (3) of 24154
 
<What in the world are you talking about here? Which competition? The Amiga folks didn't understand graphical computing? Ever hear of Sun? Evans & sutherland? Xerox? Macintosh? Ever hear of Andrew and M3? X-windows?>

No, they didn't!! Where are they now? The biggest advantage of a graphical computing is the uniform interface capabilites and the ability to communicate to the end user a farily complex set of commands with a comparatively simple set of mouse/key strokes. This enables developers to bring mainstream power to the masses. No Unix commands, no DOS commands, just point and click. The only company that took full advantage of this paradigm early on was MSFT. Amiga and Apple were to proprietary, and the same can be said for all of Unix. None of them (I really don't remember what Amiga ran on) ran on the least expensive hardware platform of the time (and still is the least expensive), and that is the x86 architecture.

Graphical computing as in GUI, as opposed to text based computing, as in traditional Unix and DOS. MSFT beat allof these companies to the punch in introducing graphically controlled productivity apps to the masses. Hence the popularity and economic advantages of the Office suite (they were the first to bundle in order to move apps into majority marketshare by making the purchase decision a moot point via buy the popular one and get the less popular one with it).
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