[Gllug] Bill Gates To Leave Microsoft

[salsaman]

salsaman wrote:

> Christopher Hunter wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>>   
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>>
>> The Archimedes had an excellent GUI, and was incredibly small (in 
>> terms of memory) and fast.
>>
>> Chris
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>>  
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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.
> http://lives.sourceforge.net
>

Ooops, I better correct myself. Checking the wikipedia page I see GEM 
was from Digital Research International, not DEC. I always thought these 
were the same company, but obviously not.

Gabriel.

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