The credit goes to the engineers at Xerox (Xerox PARC in particular). The company Xerox showed a complete lack of vision -- failing to act on their own research because it challenged their existing business model. This kind of behavior should never be rewarded.
Apparently they haven't learned... You no longer need vision when you have a team of patent lawyers.
Does anyone remember actually using DR DOS? I'm curious as to how well it competed with MS DOS at the time. Looking back, I remember hearing good things about DR DOS (but most of it faded with the advent of Windows). It's not hard to imagine that another company could have implemented a better version.
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The credit goes to the engineers at Xerox (Xerox PARC in particular). The company Xerox showed a complete lack of vision -- failing to act on their own research because it challenged their existing business model. This kind of behavior should never be rewarded.
Apparently they haven't learned... You no longer need vision when you have a team of patent lawyers.
Does anyone remember actually using DR DOS? I'm curious as to how well it competed with MS DOS at the time. Looking back, I remember hearing good things about DR DOS (but most of it faded with the advent of Windows). It's not hard to imagine that another company could have implemented a better version.