[Gllug] Bill Gates To Leave Microsoft

[salsaman]

Christopher Hunter wrote:

>On Monday 19 Jun 2006 04:58, Peter Childs wrote:
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>>Apple created the first window based GUI
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>No.  I think it was Xerox.
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>>There was even a window like GUI on the BBC if I remember correctly,
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>The Archimedes had an excellent GUI, and was incredibly small (in terms of 
>memory) and fast.
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>Chris
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Digital Equipment Corporation (otherwise known as DEC) also had the GEM 
graphics system for the PC before Microsoft came out with Windows. I 
remember using it in about 1986.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager


Gabriel.
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