On 15-12-2004 20:45,H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Mason Loring Bliss_, on 15/12/04 14:30,typed: > >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:13:28PM -0500, H. S. wrote: >> >> >>> However, I believe that the GUI that MS has given to the masses has >>> played a very beneficial role in the GUI development in Unix/Linux >>> world. >> >> >> >> To credit Microsoft with this is unfortunate and incorrect. >> >> Credit Apple with bringing the GUI to the desktop. They released the Lisa >> in 1983, and then the Macintosh 128K in 1984, which was immediately >> popular. >> Microsoft release Windows 1.0 near the end of 1985. Windows did not >> become >> popular until version 3.1, which was released in October of *1992*. >> [cut] > > I never said MS "invented" the GUI, only that it made it so widely > available (by hook or by crook).
I'd rather say they've "stolen" the GUI idea ;-) Watch the "Pirates from the Silicon Valley" movie - a nice, easy film of the beginning of Apple and MS :) -- misiek *** Michal R. Hoffmann | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *** *** -= member of: KNM, ZUKiH, HCKU =- *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]