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Gene Kearns wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:28:51 -0500, John H. penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:


|When I first started teaching, we had Macs everywhere. I think they were
|being given to the schools in the hopes the kids would get hooked.
|Eventually the county in which I teach got the word and went with Dells,
|for the most part. Now it's hard to find a Mac in the school.

Yeah, great half-marketing strategy. Apple gave the schools tons of
computers.... and they were used and appreciated.

It didn't work because Apple did a poor job of placing computers in
the workplace. Employers didn't see any advantage in students trained
on computers and an operating system they didn't use. So..... Dell is
usually the low bid and school systems buy cheap. We
have thousands of computers at my school and they are all Dell....


This is the converse of how UNIX took over software development.

No it isn't. Bell Labs used to deliver Unix to the schools for the VAX
systems for $250 copy fee. $25k to a commercial customer. So lots of
programmers coming out of school were used to Unix and C.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:28:28 -0800, Calif Bill penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|
|"BAR" wrote in message
...
| Gene Kearns wrote:
| On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:28:51 -0500, John H. penned the following well
| considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
|
| |When I first started teaching, we had Macs everywhere. I think they were
| |being given to the schools in the hopes the kids would get hooked.
| |Eventually the county in which I teach got the word and went with Dells,
| |for the most part. Now it's hard to find a Mac in the school.
|
| Yeah, great half-marketing strategy. Apple gave the schools tons of
| computers.... and they were used and appreciated.
|
| It didn't work because Apple did a poor job of placing computers in
| the workplace. Employers didn't see any advantage in students trained
| on computers and an operating system they didn't use. So..... Dell is
| usually the low bid and school systems buy cheap. We
| have thousands of computers at my school and they are all Dell....
|
|
| This is the converse of how UNIX took over software development.
|
|No it isn't. Bell Labs used to deliver Unix to the schools for the VAX
|systems for $250 copy fee. $25k to a commercial customer. So lots of
|programmers coming out of school were used to Unix and C.
|

And Pascal..... which came bundled with our Interactive Unix.... in
the late 70's and early 80's

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Gene Kearns wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:28:28 -0800, Calif Bill penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|
|"BAR" wrote in message
...
| Gene Kearns wrote:
| On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:28:51 -0500, John H. penned the following well
| considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
|
| |When I first started teaching, we had Macs everywhere. I think they were
| |being given to the schools in the hopes the kids would get hooked.
| |Eventually the county in which I teach got the word and went with Dells,
| |for the most part. Now it's hard to find a Mac in the school.
|
| Yeah, great half-marketing strategy. Apple gave the schools tons of
| computers.... and they were used and appreciated.
|
| It didn't work because Apple did a poor job of placing computers in
| the workplace. Employers didn't see any advantage in students trained
| on computers and an operating system they didn't use. So..... Dell is
| usually the low bid and school systems buy cheap. We
| have thousands of computers at my school and they are all Dell....
|
|
| This is the converse of how UNIX took over software development.
|
|No it isn't. Bell Labs used to deliver Unix to the schools for the VAX
|systems for $250 copy fee. $25k to a commercial customer. So lots of
|programmers coming out of school were used to Unix and C.
|

And Pascal..... which came bundled with our Interactive Unix.... in
the late 70's and early 80's

Pascal, the crappiest language I ever had to deal with.