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"At that time, Windows 3.11 was wonderful. People were amazed by it."

These must have been people with little computer experience.

In '93 I also ran 3.11, at home. At work I had access to Big Iron, VMS, DG UX, and a hand full of other OSes. There wasn't a really decent Microsoft OS until Windows 2000. Microsoft was only god on the desktop because it allow the average user tools like Office. The engineers and professionals used Sun workstations and Macs, production used VMS, which was decades ahead of any of the PC OSes at the time.



Precisely; Microsoft succeeded because it freed up the average user from the priests in charge of the big iron.


Correct. But they had to reinvent the good features of big iron in the past three decades.




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