Re: Not "Satanism;" realism.

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

Mitch Stone wrote:

>Yes, a more fragmented market, and more competition within type. This
>might have lead to a great number of incompatibilities, but I suspect
>not. A more diverse and fragmented industry would naturally discover
>incentives to cooperate on the creation and maintenance of common, public
>domain, low-level standards.

In other words... the PC market might be like the market for Unix
workstations.  Mutliple hardware architectures, multiple operating systems,
but a good degree of standard-based interoperability.



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