Re: [tlug] IMEs in Mint?

["Stephen A. Carter" <scarter@example.com>]

On 14/04/05 15:44, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Nah.  Mac OS X runs on hardware owned by Apple, and you can't really
> use that hardware (which is pretty nice, no?) without using Mac OS X
> (certainly not without *buying* Mac OS X).  Ditto, Windows until 1994
> (or thereabouts, Microsoft literally owned the hardware in the same
> way -- the so-called "Microsoft tax", and by then DOS and Windows were
> inextricably-ensconced in the Intel world that the consent degree that
> eliminated the Microsoft tax didn't really enable much additional
> competition).

That "Windows until 1994" bit -- for me it was definitely "from," not 
"until." Up to then, Intel-based hardware and OS were always easily 
purchased separately, and for the OS I usually chose IBM's DOS/V or 
PC-DOS (once or twice with Windows 3.0 or 3.1 also purchased separately 
and installed atop the DOS) -- though there was also a ThinkPad 701C I 
bought that came with IBM's OS/2 preinstalled, and no Windows in sight. 
Around 1995 was when I started to find it impossible to buy a computer 
with no OS installed for a lower price than the same machine with Windows.

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Stephen A. Carter
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Nagoya, Japan