Windows94@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoWhich software was ahead of its time?message-squaremessage-square167fedilinkarrow-up1177arrow-down14
arrow-up1173arrow-down1message-squareWhich software was ahead of its time?Windows94@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square167fedilink
minus-squareadavis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoI think if anything I’d view it from the other direction. We had machines with hardware support for memory protection and multitasking and we got DOS. DOS was the abberation. Microsoft was a Xenix vendor before it sold DOS.
I think if anything I’d view it from the other direction. We had machines with hardware support for memory protection and multitasking and we got DOS. DOS was the abberation.
Microsoft was a Xenix vendor before it sold DOS.