XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-19 12:31, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/19/25 3:23 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> And as always, you expect the flow of discussion to go a certain way,   
   >>> that it may not.   
   >>   
   >> I expect it not to immediately spring off to your favourite bete noire.   
   >   
   >   
   > You included Apple in your previous statement, about VisiCalc.   
      
   Because the Apple II was being discussed...   
      
   ...which you know, because you carefully snipped it out.   
      
   > They do   
   > get credit for certain milestones like that.  But yet they lag behind   
   > Microsoft and Linux due to their esoteric nature.   
   LOL!   
      
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