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From: Gordon Darling on 28 May 2010 08:29 On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:42:51 +0800, Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote: > On 5/28/2010 16:38, Gordon Darling wrote: >> On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:17:54 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: >> >>> .... was Microsoft's invention of Windows. >> >> They didn't invent windows. Xerox PARC did. > > Actually, Bill Gates of Micro$oft split up with IBM when they both were > working on OS/2! Not in the same time-scale. The first true GUI was created and developed at Xerox PARC in 1973 for the Alto computer. The IBM/Microsoft split was in 1990. The first computer to use the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI) was nearly 20 years before that. Digital Research (DRI) shipped the GEM Desktop in February 1985, Windows 1.0 was not released until November 1985. But hey, Microsoft has a long history of stealing other peoples ideas. Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: Craig on 29 May 2010 00:38 On 05/28/2010 01:42 AM, Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote: > On 5/28/2010 16:38, Gordon Darling wrote: >> On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:17:54 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: >> >>> .... was Microsoft's invention of Windows. >> >> They didn't invent windows. Xerox PARC did. > > Actually, Bill Gates of Micro$oft split up with IBM when they both were > working on OS/2! Apples and oranges, Man-wai. -- -Craig
From: DissidentArmy on 29 May 2010 12:58
On Sat, 29 May 2010 15:54:34 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: > "Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps)" <toylet.toylet(a)gmail.com> wrote > in news:htnvmf$nsp$3(a)news.eternal-september.org: > >> On 5/28/2010 16:38, Gordon Darling wrote: >>> On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:17:54 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: >>> >>>> .... was Microsoft's invention of Windows. >>> >>> They didn't invent windows. Xerox PARC did. >> >> Actually, Bill Gates of Micro$oft split up with IBM when they both were >> working on OS/2! >> >> > I was replying to Terry...at least I thought I was. At any rate, I'll > repeat that I'm not a Linux hater. I like what it is trying to do and > someday it may become time for me to try it. Until then, the Windows > interface rocks. All those illegal Chinese copies of Win 7 show you > can't go wrong with Microsoft. Oh you can go terribly wrong, an illegel Chinese copie of Win 7 wit a Chinese AV pe. -- http://dissidentarmy.be/main |