Yes and no. Microsoft doesn't make hardware (agreed, keyboards and such excepted) but they DO make the most prevalent (from a home-user standpoint) operating system. One of the things Microsoft did to help along those market forces you mention (and their own pocketbook) was to sell the idea of the home PC to the public. Bob Noyce had nothing to do with it. Ask your mom and dad (or, to play it safe, their neighbor) why they bought their first home PC. If it was a Mac, then they don't fit; Steve Jobs possessed them. But if it was a PC, see if the name "Bob Noyce" is mentioned anywhere.

I knew what Windows was before I knew about Intel; to the average home user, the box is just an appliance, like the TV or the microwave. The "computer" is the operating system, and that's Windows.

- Ozymandias

In reply to RE:(6) Visual Perl & ActiveState (Ozymandias: OS vs. Hardware) by Ozymandias
in thread Visual Perl & ActiveState by BBQ

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