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1. DRACONIC TINKERTOOL DRIVERS
2. DRACONIC TINKERTOOL SOFTWARE
3. DRACONIC TINKERTOOL LICENSE
4. DRACONIC TINKERTOOL WINDOWS

DRACONIC TINKERTOOL SOFTWARE

You couldn’t build non-Apple peripherals, so the plotters only had a market on PC and there was no point in writing CAD software for a platform with limited output capabilities. I don’t know whether the plotter hardware or CAD software made the committment to PC first, but both made the obvious choice. This caused a lot of architecture and engineering firms to choose PCs.

DRACONIC TINKERTOOL WINDOWS

This caused a lot of the instability problems on Windows because they had more third-party software interacting, but it meant that a lot of hardware and software got added to the Wintel platform while the Apple remained one-size-fits-all.įor instance, a number of very good pen plotters and CAD packages became available on the PC while Apple had neither.

DRACONIC TINKERTOOL DRIVERS

The Wintel platform was an open standard so anyone could build a peripheral and make drivers for it. If you wanted a printer, external drive, etc. Originally, Apple was a proprietary platform, so you had to buy your entire hardware chain from them. I had a PC machine, but was too stupid to use it so I bought an Apple.” The majority of people are not willing to pay extra for the equivalent quality.ĭid anybody catch the underlying message of one set of Apple advertisement?

DRACONIC TINKERTOOL LICENSE

Remember Betamax? By all accounts, it was better than VHS, but Sony refused to license it. Yes some reliabilty would have been lost, but by now our machines would be twice as powerful (all that PC money going into the better Apple based computers). Jobs, not Gates, would be the richest man in the world.

I speculate that if Apple had granted licenses in the beginning, we would all be using Apples now. Only Apple makes Apple, so you will pay more for the same computing power as a PC. The reason more people have Windows is that anybody can put together a Windows machine and sell it cheaply. Linux will replace Windows if and when it has an intuitive desktop and is fully compatible with Windows software.

More people have Windows, so more and faster hardware is produced, so more software is produced, so the cost goes down, so more people purchase Windows, so… There are of course many other reasons: you might look at the failure of Commodore and Apple to move into the business market or that PCs weren’t limited to a single supplier, or the MS made some shady deals to force companies to include Windows with all their PCs…it’s a complicated issue. Newer versions of Windows built on the ~95% of the market that previous ones had. And last, but not least, it allowed you to run your old Windows 3.1 applications. Due to the massive marketing, it also had drivers for just about every piece of hardware going. It included a TCP/IP stack which before you had to get seperately (anyone remember Trumpet winsock?). Windows 95 was popular partly because it was massively promoted but certainly because of the rise of the Internet at that time. Plus, you didn’t have to buy a new machine it installed on top of DOS. Win3.1 was popular because it allowed you to run more than one program at once and also allowed you to run your old DOS applications. The first versions of Windows actually weren’t very popular and it wasn’t until Windows 3.1 came out that it really took off.

Roughly speaking, PCs were seen as business machines and PCs came with DOS. Commodore screwed up because they didn’t realise that people were starting to buy PCs as home computers because that’s what they used at work (you should be asking why we aren’t all using Amigas!). Linux didn’t exist when Windows 3.1 was out and taking over. I suppose it’s also because it was the most popular.