Re: Mac shipments up 12% [Was: focus!]

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:

> I am sure that among GNOME and
> GNU/Linux users we will find many people who thought things like OS/2,
> Amiga OS and BeOS was the next big thing back in the day based on the
> technical qualities of said systems. When I hear people singing MacOS X
> praises today it seems to me its using the same tune as the praises sung
> to those operating systems of yesteryear.

True up to a point, although MacOS in its various (and sometimes more 
usable than current) guises has been around since before any of those, 
and although you can't necessarily say it's "outlived" OS/2, BeOS, 
Workbench or GEM[1], it's certainly left them eating considerable dust, 
in terms of widespread adoption.

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] If you believe that a good OS never dies, it just stops being 
developed...

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