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Originally Posted by HarryT
MS-DOS before All that was in 1981. Windows 3.1 wasn't released for another 11 years, in 1992. By that time, MS-DOS already "ruled the world" and was shipped with basically every computer sold.
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Sorry, but I have to disagree with this. There were alternatives, good alternatives, at least in the 1980s. M$ certainly did not "rule the world." OS/2 was an option, as was DR-DOS. Concurrent DOS ran very nicely, as did Coherent. In the GUI market, PC-GEOS was probably a better GUI than MS-Windows (M$ didn't play fair here, and PC-GEOS now is the Nokia GUI, I believe).
I think it was in 1989 that I bought a couple of Dell's with Dell UNIX pre-installed, so at that time M$ hadn't coerced all of the manufacturers to buy into their OSs.
The nice thing today is that there are great alternatives to M$. And more and more people are switching to them. I have to work with M$ software, but honestly- if I was forced to use their OSs for my personal computing, I would not own a computer.