breadboarding

[krw]

In article <eoufb41uke7l7k1ucq8m8eerajgmdk0tke@4ax.com>,
quiettechblue@yahoo.com says...

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:04:00 -0500, krw <krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzz> wrote:

In article <pZytk.23024$N87.21011@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>,
notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net says...
Phil Hobbs wrote:
Joerg wrote:
JeffM wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
[...]Skype looks pretty interesting
[...]they don't have a Slackware package
and I didn't see any links to source where I can compile it here.
Anybody heard of either of those anywhere?

Joerg wrote:
What's slackware? Some kind of trousers?
duck and run ...

Actually, it's the oldest extant distro.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:t01sMEAV2jYJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions+1993-08+1994-*-*+1993-07+text+text+1995.*.*+without.cost+text+First.Public.Release+text+Debian.Project+SuSE.Linux+Slackware+text+text+Red.Hat.Linux


I've wondered what the world would be like
if a big rock had fallen out of the sky and
impacted the Redmond campus during business hours ~April 1, 1995
(before W95 and just before Red Hat's release).


Probably IBM would then still be in that biz because there wouldn't
have been Senor Gates eating their lunch.


OS/2 2.0 came out in April, 1992. A spectacular technical
success--multithreaded 32-bit OS, fully object-oriented GUI, a beautiful
object model (SOM)...I could go on...but a stupid marketing failure. I
still use OS/2 at least a few times a week, and I still love it.


Well, absolutely. I was sure hoping OS/2 would make it but they
blundered so badly in the marketing area that it's hard to believe.
Essentially they could have eaten Microsoft's lunch but instead simply
walked away from the table.

They simply didn't have the money.

Back then the money ratio was still in IBM's favor. IBM turned away
because it would have eaten into their Power architecture 'nix
workstation line. One more instance of killing the golden egg laying
goose to save the lame duck product.

No, it wasn't. IBM was bust, by some *very* knowledgeable people,
withing two or three weeks of missing payroll. There simply were
more important places to put a few hundred million$.

--
Keith