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To: Michael Kimmel who wrote (24072)	5/2/2000 12:10:00 PM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

But the applications side of MSFT business had lots of competition in the beginning.Their present dominance wasn't just luck . Like most of MSFT's dominance it was due to a combination of dumb moves on the part of their competitors and smart moves by MSFT .I'm not a software engineer, but I've been around the PC game as an active user since 1982, so I remember the beginnings. I thought it would take maybe 50 years to get where we are today. The speed and pervasiveness of the tech revolution has surprised most of us, and it seems to be accelerating. My father was born just before the Wright brothers flew, and lived to see men on the moon. I can't really imagine what my grandchildren will live to see.

To: Michael Kimmel who wrote (24072)	5/2/2000 12:15:00 PM
From: Michael Kimmel	Respond to of 54805

It occurs to me that not all Gorilla Gamers might understand what an API is. An operating system manages resources on a computer. It is the thing running the show. Applications and devices make requests of the operating system to schedule the use of some resource that they need. In addition, the operating system has a collection of utility routines needed by the applications. The requests that are made to the operating system are done, at the base level, by a set of procedure calls. These procedure calls take a list of arguments. It is the collection (and order) of these arguments that comprise the interface to the system. The API is the set of these procedure calls - made by the applications.