David Brown wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 07:43:40PM -0700, Richard Reynolds wrote:
pre-microsoft computers were a pain.
microsoft did what they had to do to fix it.
and regardless of your like for them or dislike of them, they did
alot.
What computers ?
Pre-M$ was Apple, and they were wonderful !
Very interesting is this the same thinking that M$ == Winhozed???
or am I forgetting my history lessons didnt apple come AFTER M$
Apple Macintosh: 1984
Windows 1.0 : 1985
Windows 3.0 was in 1990 when it actually became something people ran.
Of course, depends on what you mean by "Microsoft", and whether you count
DOS in that. The IBM P/C running DOS was 1981. Eventually, it even had
exciting things like subdirectories and harddisk support.
Even before DOS, Micro-Soft had a BASIC interpreter they developed from
a public domain research project into proprietary software using
"borrowed" time on a mainframe system. Their BASIC ran under the CP/M
operating system developed by Digital Research, a company Micro-Soft
soon destroyed.
James
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