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To: Syncrude who wrote (9872)	5/14/2006 4:58:18 PM
From: insitusands	Respond to of 25575

I think you may want to read "with a K's" post (9865) earlier today re: this subject. He seems to have a good handle on it.

To: Syncrude who wrote (9872)	5/14/2006 5:00:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25575

OT Something else that happened was that Radio Shack used a Microsoft OS that was called TRS-DOS, and actually had a good shot at becoming a major microcomputer player. But they tried to prevent the sale of software outside of their own network, i.e. they tried to monopolize the sale of software for use on their own computers. I don't know what the policy was at first with IBM, but of course very soon, all sorts of people were writing software that would run on IBM micros, and the name IBM added a lot to the prestige of the Microsoft operating system. To this day, some people think that CP/M was better than MS-DOS. I used a Kaypro for several years than ran on CP/M and for my purposes it worked fine. But it just withered away once everyone (who wasn't committed to Apple) chose to program for MS-DOS. But by far the stupidest policy was for Radio Shack to try to prevent outsiders from marketing software for their computers. I took a shot a few months ago at changing over to Linux, but soon found I couldn't use it for the jobs I needed to do.