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Flightless Bird
Before OS/2 I liked MS. I had an MS-DOS-Generic (no-bitmap, no IBM compat)
80186 and Microsoft went out of their way to be helpful.
I also ran Multiplan on that Ampro 2210 with an HP2621a terminal.
I joke about it, but it feels like this is true: when MS did biz with
IBM on OS/2 it was almost like IBM body snatched MS and IBM died - IBM
since then is a very different firm, and MS acts like the old IBM did.
I also feel the venture capital industry badly distorted itself after
the MS IPO. Before that you got a quarter million in VC and sold the
company to a larger firm two years later, which is much more humane
for the mad scientist entrepreneurs.
American hardware always overcompensated in those days. Serial ports
had a fanout of five, but the Japanese products would only tolerate
one. Standards and compatibility became obsolete. The So-called
Japanese model foisted on us in the mid 1980s was a disaster. It had
nothing to do with the traditional American capitalism.
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Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]
80186 and Microsoft went out of their way to be helpful.
I also ran Multiplan on that Ampro 2210 with an HP2621a terminal.
I joke about it, but it feels like this is true: when MS did biz with
IBM on OS/2 it was almost like IBM body snatched MS and IBM died - IBM
since then is a very different firm, and MS acts like the old IBM did.
I also feel the venture capital industry badly distorted itself after
the MS IPO. Before that you got a quarter million in VC and sold the
company to a larger firm two years later, which is much more humane
for the mad scientist entrepreneurs.
American hardware always overcompensated in those days. Serial ports
had a fanout of five, but the Japanese products would only tolerate
one. Standards and compatibility became obsolete. The So-called
Japanese model foisted on us in the mid 1980s was a disaster. It had
nothing to do with the traditional American capitalism.
- = -
Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]