From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 19 12: 4:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (smtp7.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.128.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1E115179 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:04:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from uncleben@mindspring.com) Received: from rohan (user-2iniid5.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.73.165]) by smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA02022 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:04:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19991219151108.007fcc70@pop.mindspring.com> X-Sender: uncleben@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:11:08 -0500 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org From: Ben Pitzer Subject: Re: windows debate Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jonathon, True, but what then made the PC platform more desirable than the Mac platform, for which hardware prices were also lower? The Mac GUI OS was far superior to the DOS command line for many average users when the hardware prices dropped. Much less daunting, at the least. And MUCH prettier. Regards, Ben Pitzer At 03:40 PM 12/19/99 +0000, you wrote: > >On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Ben Pitzer wrote: > >>Jonathan, in all, your brother-in-law is right about Gates' economic >>impact. He undercut Apple's prices and technology, and convinced the world >>that his product was better than Jobs' product. Was he right? Does it >>matter? He got computers into homes, and now it's the job of people like > >The one point i disagree with here is that HARDWARE prices, not OS prices >got computers into homes. WIndows helped,but it was cheaper hardware that >made them more accessible. And unfortunately, a poor OS then made them >prettier, if not more usable to the average Joe. > >-jm > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message