Re: Handheld OS

Kragen Sitaker (kragen@pobox.com)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:29:57 -0500 (EST)

Tomwhore writes:
> Isnt it amazing, in the shadow of a large evil monopoly another OS got a
> toe hold in the market

As JJ points out, the PC market is different from the server market,
the palmtop market, the embedded-computer market, etc.

So it's not surprising, from his point of view.

On the other hand, various OSes (notably DR-DOS, OS/2, BeOS, and Linux)
have tried to challenge Microsoft's desktop dominance, and so far have
failed.

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