Commodore 64 days? Did you have that 64 with the little monitor? The
forerunner to the laptop?
On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> On 2025-05-10 20:53, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> Thanks Eric!!
>
> My first M$ product was DOS 3.1. As I recall, and it has been a few
> years, 2.11 was still out there. That was around 1986....
>
> I got to see a lot since my commodore 64 days...
>
> Still do not understand how an Apple is less vulnerable when not being
> upgraded. I know most attacks are om M$ and the Web.... However....
>
>
> > Keith,
> >
> > There is the realization in the apple community that everyone will, at
> > some point, be forced to upgrade. There isn’t a lot of noise simply
> > because it is already a known fact (and apple doesn’t charge for OS
> > upgrades). MS got into a lot of trouble and started losing gobs of
> > money when they tried to insist that everyone pay for OS upgrades on
> > every upgrade. Honestly, if it were up to me, I would have the dev
> > teams for both apple and MS working on solving all the old bugs that
> > never seem to go away, regardless of major version. There are some bugs
> > in both OS environments that go back to very early days of each (in the
> > case of windows, a few such bugs go back as far as the msDos based
> > systems using win 3.1).
> >
> > Oh, and as for MS demanding upgrades, they are part of the same
> > consortium that brought you the extensible firmware interface and are
> > also involved heavily in the trusted platform module project (which is
> > why win11 might not install on machines older than some pre-described
> > date). Also, MS does sell their OS in the retail markets for those who
> > custom build their own machines. However, their biggest money maker
> > happens to be the licensing scheme they use (and volume licenses can
> > cost as much as $2,000 a unit yearly for corporate environments). That
> > also applies to government contracts (ever been to the SSA or even the
> > state dept of economic security? Virtually every desktop is a windows
> > machine with some kind of back end server setup for in house storage,
> > security, database and other things.
> >
> > Anyway, that’s my take on the whole apple vs. MS vs Linux contest that
> > has been going on since the early 2000’s.
> >
> > -Eric
> > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Historical References
> > Dept.
> >
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