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Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 11:37:53 -0700
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: L&J: FAT16 and Computer M
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No, it's not malice, just monopoly.
Monopolies are good -- for monopolies
and their economic subdivisions :)
Look at all the carpenters Gates is
now employing -- no visible outlets!
/s/ Paul Mitchell
At 06:21 PM 5/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>>>I don't know exactly how this topic fits in to the charter
>>>>of L&J (though, of course, its not the only such topic), but
>
>>>Beats me. PM started in with a "conspiracy" about FAT16 being some evil
>>>Gatesian plot to waste our hard drive space or something. While I don't
>>>think too highly *at all* of the little richer'n God twerp, *or* his
>>>underhanded practices to raise M$ to monopoly status, I don't think that
>>>FAT16 was any kind of conspiracy so much as it was a holdover from the
>>>"640k should be enough for everyone!" days of 'puting.
>
>>You are putting words in my mouth.
>>Microsoft's virtual monopoly gave
>>it a very good reason to delay
>>release of FAT32, and that reason,
>>among others, was to boost the
>>profitability of disk drive
>>manufacturers. It is a very
>
>I still don't think so. If anything, it was "delayed" so long because
>the Grand Nagus couldn't friggin' *buy* the tek, and M$ had to develop
>it on its own.
>
>Let's face it, drive space is cheap, relatively speaking. The space
>eaten up by "slack space" per file is nothing compared to the outright
>*bloat* that exists in apps. As Scott mentioned, there's the bloat in
>the data itself in everyday wp files. And ya heard about the 24-bit
>targa picture of the Grand Nagus Bill's horse, Nugget, that's embedded
>in Lose95 itself? Tricky sequence, but a few keystrokes and a mouse
>click or two when the system's starting up, and there's good ol' Nugget.
>And is there any real *need* to bloat the code with things like games,
>no matter how cute? How much do things like *that* waste?
>
>
>>cozy relationship, particularly
>>when MS can claim a virtual
>>monopoly. It is the monopolistic
>>practices to which I object.
>>This is the not the first time
>>such a thing has happened with
>>Microsoft, and it won't be the
>>last, if I know anything about
>>the computer industry.
>
>Of course not. Remember "It ain't done 'til Lotus won't run!"? Or as
>someone pointed out to me recently, the newest version of an M$ compiler
>which produces output (compiled) programs that will most decidedly *not*
>work in a DOS window of "competing OSes" (namely, one that goes by the
>initials 'O', 'S', and '2').
>
>He's pond scum, and has the business morals/ethics of Jozef Mengele.
>But frankly, I don't think delaying FAT32 was any conspiratorial plot
>with disk drive mfrs to boost their profits. (I mean, c'mon, you
>couldn't friggin' undelete a file or even rename a directory 'til
>something like DOS5, even though there were commercial utils and
>freeware utils which did this since the DOS3.1 days! The Grand Nagus
>and even M$ itself ain't exactly the kings of originality, y'know.)
>---
> . SLMR 2.0 #..jw . Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain.
>
>
>
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