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GeneralIn the beginning...was the command line (old but still relevant) Pin
raddevus31-Jul-17 9:44
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You can read the text of Neal Stephenson's In The Beginning...was the command line at:
Neal Stephenson's site[^] (download the zip)

It's a very interesting look at how computers became a product.
Neal Stephenson wrote in 1999

Why, then, do I say that Microsoft is not such a great operating systems company? Because the very nature of operating systems is such that it is senseless for them to be developed and owned by a specific company. It's a thankless job to begin with. Applications create possibilities for millions of credulous users, whereas OSes impose limitations on thousands of grumpy coders, and so OS-makers will forever be on the sh*t-list of anyone who counts for anything in the high-tech world. Applications get used by people whose big problem is understanding all of their features, whereas OSes get hacked by coders who are annoyed by their limitations. The OS business has been good to Microsoft only insofar as it has given them the money they needed to launch a really good applications software business and to hire a lot of smart researchers. Now it really ought to be jettisoned, like a spent booster stage from a rocket. The big question is whether Microsoft is capable of doing this. Or is it addicted to OS sales in the same way as Apple is to selling hardware?

Interesting that Stephenson understood this way back in 1999. Did Microsoft listen? It feels like it.
You can also get the mobi fully formatted book version at amazon : In The Beginning...was the command line[^]
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