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Rod Speed
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jmfbahciv wrote
In fact most of the 8s didnt even have an OS at all.
Using that mindlessly silly line, only the first network was ever an innovation.
All of them for the smaller machines have similaritys.Rod Speed wrote
Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote
Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
Not that they ever have innovated, of course, but
they'd like to know they could if they ever decided to.
Indeed, DOS was not an innovation, it wasn't even orignally developed by MS.
Furthermore it was originally close to a copy of CP/M.
Pigs arse it was.
Which was similar to the OS on the PDP-8.
In fact most of the 8s didnt even have an OS at all.
Any decent network has to be able to do that sort of basic stuff.Indeed, Windows was not an innnovation, just a ripoff of Xerox and
Apple. Networking in windows (remember Winsock?) derived from BSD.
Winsock wasn't from MS, it was put together by a group of
people chatting on Compuserve - MS never even implemented
the first version of it (that was left to Trumpet to do).
Pity about what happened later.
Network File Systems? First done by Novell with Netware.
I think DEC FAL was a bit earlier (ie. earlier than PCs).
Much earlier in fact. But was nothing like what Win ended up with.
There was code before FAL which could transfer files between systems.
Using that mindlessly silly line, only the first network was ever an innovation.
No one ever said it was.Please note that this ability to transfer is not a network file system.
Any 2 year old could leave that for dead.Where's NetBUI today (an example of innovation gone bad)?
IE? First done by Mosiac, then Netscape.
IE and Netscape were originally derived from Mosaic.
And then moved on a hell of a long way past that.
I think we are in strong agreement about how little innovation has come out of MS.
Just because a couple of clowns claim something, doesnt make it gospel.
You are ignorant.