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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-19 11:01, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/19/25 12:49 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >> The whole reason that IBM rushed out the original PC in a form that   
   >> was cloneable with an OS that they'd only licensed was that businesses   
   >> were buying Apple II computers for the first "killer app":   
   >>   
   >> VisiCalc.   
   >>   
   >> The very first spreadsheet program.   
   >   
   >   
   > IBM certainly has been late to the game, over the course of this.  Gates   
   > played them well.  They adopted Linux when it became the clear platform   
   > of choice for Unix.  And yet Apple is always working with stuff that's   
   > too "different", and gets left behind.  It's a weird industry, overall,   
   > but I feel great about having Linux as a way to avoid the lameness, of   
   > proprietary environments in computing.   
   >   
      
   And as always, you make a reply that basically has nothing to do with   
   the topic under discussion.   
      
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