[Qt-interest] Nokia and MS

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Thu Feb 17 10:41:49 CET 2011



16.02.2011, 21:34, "Frederico Prado" <famprado at terra.com.br>:
> As the Macintosh completely taking the Desktop Market from IBM in the 80s? Or maybe as in this quote:
>
> "If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years." - On the
> early rivalry between Macintosh and "IBM-compatible" computers based on Microsoft's DOS, as quoted in Steve Jobs : The Journey is the Reward (1987) by Jeffrey S.
> Young, p. 235
>
> As you can see, we have clearly lacked advances in computers in the last 20 years and were only saved from our terrible IBM Dark Age by the advent of the incredible

Right, for last 20 years we lived in the Dark Age of domination of defective x86 architecture and crappy OSes from Microsoft

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Regards,
Konstantin



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