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Re: Linux Status, was Re: Compiler status

• Posted by Ben Fosberg <BenFosberg at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> Jul 11, 2000
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Yes, I believe that about the web backbone, and believe that there are very good
reasons
for the situation. Didn't mean to imply that Linux was not rapidly gaining the
market
share it deserves, simply that it doesn't yet have anywhere near the massive
number of
"hands-on" users that DOS has, even without considering - as someone else
mentioned -
that Windoz is simply(?) a overly complex wrapper for DOS.

David Garcia wrote:

> Ben Fosberg wrote:
>
> > I'm "programming" (almost) for DOS and Windoz on little slow machines and
> > big
> > fast ones. DOS is far from dead outside the small world of "developers," and
> > Linux, et al., are a long way from common in the real world.
>
> DOS has it's uses, for example I have a (believe it or not) QBASIC program
> that
> generates customized javascript for me... that just happened to be the tool at
> hand.
>
> btw, Linux is the OS for over half the machines that comprise the core of the
> Internet, according to several recent studies.