[Gllug] Bill Gates To Leave Microsoft

[Rich Walker]

Christopher Hunter <chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> On Monday 19 Jun 2006 04:58, Peter Childs wrote:
>
>> Apple created the first window based GUI
>
> No.  I think it was Xerox.
>
>> There was even a window like GUI on the BBC if I remember correctly,

The AMX Mouse + accompanying software.

(Which means I wrote my first windowing program ... ghods, a long time ago)

>
> The Archimedes had an excellent GUI, and was incredibly small (in terms of 
> memory) and fast.

Ran (moderately) well on 1MB RAM. 8MHz 7MIPS 32-bit CPU. Those were the
days...

*gets all nostalgic*

cheers, Rich.


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