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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 10:51:07 JST nixCraft 🐧

   "Bell Labs created Microsoft by charging $25,000 for Unix. If they'd charged $50, Unix would be the world standard." -- Ted Nelson

   What do you think?

   • Arqtec (arqtec@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 11:12:40 JST Arqtec

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     @nixCraft
     IN 1971 I was in the Insurance Business
     I would give presentations for policies and have a hand held Sears & Roebuck calculator ( Cost $100 Bucks) had only 4 function ....people were all gogglieyed over this one little device?
     Now I-phones do better pictures than my $1000 Nikon Camera
     So, Now A I can mimic a person so completely you cannot tell the difference
     Thank God theres still SEX

   • boxspring (boxspring@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 12:10:26 JST boxspring

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     @nixCraft My suspicion is that Bell Labs had nothing to do with the pricing.

   • Dennis Caldwell (bipedalprog@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 12:49:40 JST Dennis Caldwell

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     @nixCraft I think this is mostly right. There was Xenix, which also helped to promote Windows.

   • Beastfellow (beastfellow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 13:41:40 JST Beastfellow

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     @nixCraft windows is also not in reach of many developing countries. Yet we have windows in computer subjects starting from primary school. Bad luck for future generations.

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 15:54:52 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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     @nixCraft

     Disagree. Microsoft gained it's foothold in the industry by making a user friendly desktop OS for non-tech end-users cheaper than Apple did. Different market.

   • Cat, owner of hue-man. (rebelwarrior@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 16:37:03 JST Cat, owner of hue-man.

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     @nixCraft definitely would have made it harder for windows but it’s not clear they’d have won. Unix required fairly expensive hardware they might have lost anyway. But MS for sure would have had to make a better product to compete.