adopting alternative OSes (was Re: [Am-info] New E-mail Worm Exploits SARS Anxiety)

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In <20030425210107.DLWT19979.priv-edtnes61.telusplanet.net@microshit>, on
04/25/03 at 02:01 PM,
   mike <mikestp@telus.net> said:

>I am able to install most Linux on any of my machines, but rather my
>complaints were about Linux and the average user.  I see Linux now in
>exactly the same boat as Warp was in 10 years ago.  IBM also
>overestimated the ability of the average user....


I think it was more that IBM was caught unprepared when the average pc
user changed from the corporate one with dedicated IT personnel to the
non-technical small user who is confused by how to insert a floppy (now
CD) disk in the drive.  Remember IBM saw no more then a market for maybe
200,000 or so PCs over the entire life of the product.  When I started
working in IT almost 20 years ago, I was assigned the "part time" job of
assembling XTs for the corporate staff.  I was a mainframe programmer, but
I was one of the only people that had a PC at home.   When I left that job
a couple years later they had a full time department
installing/maintaining PCs.  Warp was never envisioned to be used by the
masses.


Mark

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