[nylug-talk] Trend Micro sues Barracuda over ClamAV

[Ron Guerin]

Chris Knadle wrote:

>    Yeah, I think Microsoft gained their original dominance by being cheaper, 
> easier to use, and by running on cheaper commodity hardware.

They chose instead to gain dominance through illegal contracts forcing 
OEMs to pay Microsoft for MSDOS whether the machine shipped with it or 
not.  I wanted to find a URL for that, but I've gotta run out the door, 
maybe someone else can dig that up.  It was during the Clinton 
administration, and all they got a slap on the wrist for it.  Business 
and society will be paying for that for years to come still.  At least 
Bill Gates is giving his money away now, eh?

>    Re: ZX80 -- I wonder if my parents still have the ZX80 and ZX81 we had.
> We got the ZX80 in 1975.  Man that thing was awful.  Between the 1K RAM limit, 
> the terrible membrane keyboard, and having to use a TV for an output screen 
> that screamed an 18 KHz whine, I couldn't sit in front of that thing for more 
> than about an hour.  That didn't matter, though: in one hour I could 
> hunt-n-peck in a program and run out of RAM.  Geez.

The ZX81 wasn't the first machine I programmed, that was an IBM 360/40 
mainframe.  But the 81 was the first machine I *owned* and that warm 
fuzzy feeling was worth what I paid for it, even if the price was cut in 
half a few weeks later when the Timex/Sinclair version came out.

- Ron