At 4:37 PM -0600 12/9/2009, Gord Tulloch wrote: >One thing I've been pondering lately that I thought I'd bounce off the >group is: What if Apple has never invented the Mac? What would the >computer landscape have looked like?
Remember that when Apple came out with Mac, it wasn't all that "new". There were already serious GUI based workstations available, from the likes of Xerox and Applicon. What Apple did was come out with a product that was affordable to the home consumer, then run with it. So Apple would have failed, and/or been bought out by the likes of Xerox. Xerox et al would then have continued development of their GUIs, along with the likes of MIT... and today we'd be using something more akin to X11. MS would still be a big wart on the world. Windows would still be DOS with a bad GUI. It would just just be lamer, because they didn't have the prettiness of Apple's innovations to filch. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
