Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave

Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by ekianjo on Saturday November 21, 2015 @03:31AM (#10606184)

I come from the AmigaOS world in the first place, and AmigaOS was leagues ahead of Windows prior to Windows XP, years before - it was multitask, it had datatypes, Arexx scripting language and so on. It was not perfect (lacked memory protection) but nevertheless it was better than Windows 3.1 at the time.

As for third parties software, you had better software on non-Windows machines (Photoshop for example used to be a Mac exclusive), not everything was widely better in a Microsoft environment.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by xorcist on Saturday November 21, 2015 @06:33AM (#10606509)

Amiga as a platform was proprietary end-to-end. One supplier of hardware, operating system, and even some applications. It's like IBM could have been if Microsoft was in-house to them. Had AmigaOS been cross-platform, things might have developed differently.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by ekianjo on Saturday November 21, 2015 @07:21AM (#10606610)

I totally agree with you. Just pointing out that AmigaOS was way more advanced than MS-DOS or Windows 3.1 at the time they both existed on PC.

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