Re: [LUG] today's meets and some observations etc.

[Sadie Brinham <barmy_fungy_fips@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 10:37, Grant Sewell wrote:
> > julian Said
> >
> > > If others had come up with a competitor
> > > product to DOS when MS were still in their infancy then we would have a
> > > more even market today.  Sadly it didn't happen.
> >
> > I thought they did, there was DOS, DRDOS and MSDOS.  I think once 
> > Microsoft got the market share they put "things" in their OS so the
> > others would not allways work, forcing the user down the MS path.
> >
> > Peter
>
> And if I remember correctly, they carried on this practise into the early
> Windows systems.  You would hear of people having problems installing
> Windows 3 onto a machine with anything other than MSDOS.  And also some
> Windows based applications were targeted: In some cases installing an
> office suite that was not MS would cause one or two "glitches".
>
> <sarcasm>Oh, how times have changed</sarcasm>

Mmm..M$ appear "worried" by Adobe Creative Suite and Quark,too.

I could never make up my mind whether the absent .dlls were missing because 
Adobe expected them to be there already,or the Adobe installer messed up.

If you install Quark/Adobe on a Mac no such vital .dlls get 
destroyed/damaged/lost however...

Sadie


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