Kevanf1 wrote:
I run Linux because it _easier_. Then again, I came from UNIX and not Windows. I do training and step #1 is to "de-program" people from how they think computers work, because it's only how Windows works.
Hmm.... I'll await the howls of protest but surely not. We are talking about the PC here not a workstation linked to a mainframe.
Just for the record, for the last 14-15 years it's been quite difficult to tell the two apart.
but for all intent and purpose the PC as we know it came about because of IBM's offerings.
Yeah, that's reasonably accurate. Any highstreet PC today will certainly still have traces of its IBM ancestry.
IBM first used a DOS for those PC's. Now, feel free to correct me but didn't Microsoft either write that software or come in very soon after and started to write the software?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS
So, really, the Microsoft way is actually the initial way of having an operating system.
A Microsoft product was the initial operating system for the PC, yes. Nothing more, nothing less. It says nothing about the "Microsoft way", IMHO.
Linux, as a Unix way of doing things came about a few years later.
In between of course we had e.g. OS/2, a design with roots in MVS and more importantly VM. /Per Jessen, Zürich