From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
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> Possibly. However I'm not sure you're correct anymore. The world is
becoming in
> many ways more hetergeneous wrt computing than it was. You now have PDA'es
> which are more powerfull than old PC'es. You now have mobile phones which
are
> getting that powerfull. However what is a great GUI for a 17" high res
monitor
> may not be a good GUI for a dinky little Mobilephone/PDA screen.

different markets, cel phones don't gravitate because it's such a simple
device. Maybe someday if you can add lots of extra options they will for
compatibility reasons but now it's not that type of market. Same for PDA's,
there just isn't the addon market to require standardizations.

> It's like Bash vs ksh vs csh etc. In accordance with your theory by now
there
> should only be one & yet each carries on quite happily.

Nope, they didn't have the addon market either, you have to reach a
critical mass of both users and developers before standardization becomes a
requirement. Even Linux hasn't reached that point yet and it's by far the
most popular unix ever.

Geo.

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