<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Jay Lozier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com" target="_blank">jslozier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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One question always puzzled me, why would a computer manufacturer IBM<br>
not realize that any computer will need an OS and either write, buy, or<br>
license one from the start? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>It seems obvious now, and IBM certainly lacked some foresight in the matter; however, not all computers did need an operating system, at least, not the kind of OS that is prevalent today. I did not know much about computers in the 70s, but I do remember that the computer we had in the physics lab in college had to be bootstrapped into the program we wanted to run. </div>
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