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click here. Member since:   Dear god, if I hear another 'thank
Microsoft for PC's' mythology again, I swear, I'll scream -
honestly. This has become the biggest perpetual lie on the
internet since Rush spun what Gore said in regards to the
creation of the internet.  If the PC didn't take off, something
else would haven taken its place - and it wouldn't have been
Apple. Its a myth, a lie, a ball of old wives tales to some how
claim that we should all be bending over scrapping and
worshipping Billy Boy for something that was being in the right
place at the right time.  For all we know, it could have been
SPARCstations, it could have been Amigas, Atari, Amstrad, or any
number of others. And yes, Apple now uses generic PC hardware,
but at the same time, people don't purchase hardware, they don't
purchase an operating system - they purchase a computer system;
the sum of hardware and software. If the hardware and software
as a combined force don't perfor