[TUHS] If not Linux, then what?

[Steve Nickolas]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, Charles H Sauer wrote:

> possible components of answer regarding animation/CGI:
> o SGI/MIPS/IRIX would have fared better/longer
> o Jobs would have pushed Pixar towards Mach
> o P4+NVIDIA would still have been disruptive 
> (https://secure2.linuxjournal.com/ljarchive/LJ/099/6011s1.html)
> o Gates would have done more
>
> Windows had usable TCP/IP, at least starting with Windows 3, from Trumpet, 
> Chameleon and others. I found/find the Microsoft 32 bit implementation 
> preferable running Mosaic and Netscape, but had to do some work with 16 bit 
> Trumpet a few years ago for a client that needed me to make some things work 
> in DOS outside of Win 3.1.

I actually wrote an IRC client for plain DOS a few years ago - I used 
WatTCP.

-uso.