Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : The New Economy and its Winners -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Libbyt who wrote (1795)	10/1/2000 10:41:09 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 57684

A PC specifically references an IBM PC...a marketing term IBM "coined" to try and show people they weren't just about mainframes. The PC part "stuck" and any IBM PC clone is now just referred to as a PC. You will see the term PC used on almost all software....it's either for Mac or PC. Libbyt, Thank you for that trivia. I was unaware of that. These days, the average PC user runs some variant of Windows, but increasingly people are starting to use alternative operating systems like Linux or BeOS and thus the term "for PC" no longer suffices. The term "for PC's with Windows" has become the new buzz-phrase. No question about that. I use to use Unix many years ago in the late 1980s and that was a nightmare to me. The operating system was great for communication but I never really did a good jop learning the interface. Apple has its very loyal customers, and they obviously can count you among the group of loyal users! My loyalty goes to a point. I use to be more loyal years ago when Windows was around version 3.xx. My opinion as to why Apple really never took the market has a lot to do with their pricing in the early years and their refusal to license clones. John Sculley just about killed the company and if it had not been for Steve Jobs excellent work during the last few years, I believe Apple would be no more. I am more open minded now. I have no complaints using Windows although I admit to being more familiar with the Mac operating system when it comes to trouble shooting. I will make one statement that in my mind is a fact. Both major browsers run far better on Windows and NT compared to on the Mac. They are more efficient interpreting the HTML and more stable using java applets. I do not know the reason why but my guess is Microsoft optimized IE for Windows and NT. That not explain the Netscape issue. Glenn