I hate it when people give Bill Gates and Microsoft credit for whole computer and IT advancements.
We are having this conversation because many many people worked hard on these technologies. Microsoft and Bill Gates are only one of them.
Of course, DOS and Windows accerelated wider adoption of personal computers, but even if they havent, someone other company would've done so.
This is a hypothetical statement and there are n different ways our world could have diverged. Better not to speculate on how things could have moved forward.
In any case, it didn't look it was a natural progression of technology before Windows became popular as the preferred OS for a personal computer.
>> but even if they havent, someone other company would've done so.
> Better not to speculate on how things could have moved forward.
It is impossible not to speculate. The GGP is just speculating in the opposite direction as the GP. We simply must back our speculation with reasons. Personally, I like the GP's reasoning.
Or maybe the original poster was saying this because he was typing his response on a Windows computer.