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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: X-Ray Man who wrote (4904)	1/31/1998 9:26:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Oh, Gerald, you're showing your ignorance. First of all, CPM very much predates DOS. It was an 8-bit operating system. There was even a multi-user version called MPM. Of course. DOS 1.0 was nothing more than an extension of QDOS which was nothing more than an derivative of CPM. CPM versions for the x86 processor line existed then and exist now. After all, the 8086 was designed to be compatible with the 8080 and Z80 processors so that software could be machine-translated and immediately run on the 8086. That's why the op code for MOV AX,Label is so different than MOV BX,Label, because the AX translates directly to the old 8080 Accumulator and the BX was new. Do you still think I'm ignorant? Almost no one uses these CPMs now not because Microsoft won't let them but because DOS and Windows are so much superior that the added cost is perceived as worthwhile. Second, that you can assemble a system without paying MSFT begs the question, since the whole discussion was in the context of the general marketplace and consumer experience, in which 99.44% of the systems are not sold the way you described. So what? We've been told here that monopolies put all their competition out of business, you have no options, and prices go up. I've just demonstrated that options exist. Just because people don't think that there is means nothing. Microsoft has no obligation to advertise their competitor's product. Nobody holds a gun to your head to buy electricity from your local utility, but it is still effectively a monopoly. This is going to change soon with utility deregulation, isn't it? Buy your electricity from whomever you want. Get government out of the way and competition will balance things out. You seem to think that Microsoft needs regulated. Sheesh. Sheesh yourself.