[Colchester] Wayland

[Wayland Sothcott]

Toby Whaymand wrote:
> Thanks for your e-mail it was very interesting.  I can remember the days
> when 56K was a lot of memory more so to the home user (I'm 30 now)
>
> When I was 9 going on 10 back in 1987 I can remember my Dad bringing
> home a Apple Mac with the black and white screen.  The computer was so
> amazing so advance for the time.  That when my love for computers
> started...
>
> Thanks
>
> Toby  
>
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In 1979 I visited Queen Mary Collage London. They had a couple of 
amazing computers, Xerox PARC machines. These were from the Palo Alto 
Research Center in California. The first implementation of Windows Icon 
Mouse Point interface WIMP. They were very similar to Apple Mac. They 
demonstrated a card game in the user interface. This was amazing to see 
the future of computers. I think it was another 5 years before the Atari 
ST and Amega not until 1988 before OS/2 presentation Manager and 
Windows. My first Windows computer in 1989 had 3MB of RAM and it was 
crap on OS/2 and Windows where as I had been using GEM in 1985 on the 
Atari ST and the Apricot.
 It was 1992 before Windows caught up with the first Apple Mac.

Compared to those early graphical machines Windows Vista is a big 
disappointment given it's size and development time. True that Windows 
was totally useless until version 3.0 but that had a lot to do with RAM, 
if you had 8Meg RAM it was OK. Now you need 2GB and your OK. Apple are 
far more innovative and their computers far easier for users. However 
because their hardware and software is strictly controlled they are less 
friendly for hackers and third party developers. With the OS/X running 
on Intel Apple have loosened their grip on their OS.

I wonder if our LUG should do a distro?