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If Microsoft and Apple never happened...

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-11 7:59

If Bill Gates and Steve Jobs never became interested in computers. What would computing look like today in 2014?

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-11 8:55

The same, but different.

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-11 9:07

Genuine IBM Personal Computers everywhere.

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-11 9:32

>>1

Linux is older than Windows NT, so I guess there would be just Unix machines. Probably VMS would be still alive. I doubt IBM had any plans supporting OS/2, where they could have just used their more advanced OSes. And Lisp Machines lost to Unix, not Windows or Mac OS

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-11 12:36

>>4

Linux is older than Windows NT

[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Development

development started in November 1989

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Creation

In 1991, while attending the University of Helsinki, Torvalds became curious about operating systems[28] and frustrated by the licensing of MINIX, which limited it to educational use only. He began to work on his own operating system which eventually became the Linux kernel.

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-11 13:10

>>5

Linux initial release: 1991
NT initial release: July 27, 1993

sorry, Linus was faster.

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-11 13:31

>>4-6
true, linux started being developed after NT but GNU was already usable with non-free kernels ofc

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