[SWLUG] Re: Wow, seen this on Slashdot?

[Adam Rykala]

peter wrote:
>
>
>> It would really only be fair of Microsoft in this
>> instance to compare itself with Apple as really,
>> Windows is a rip-off of the Mac OS. IIRC, I was using
>> the Apple Mac 200 and 400 back in 1988 or 1989 and
>> Windows 1 came out in about 1990.
>>  
>>
> And the MacOS was a rip off of stuff done at Xerox Parc etc, etc.  As 
> is KDE or GNOME for that matter.  Come on now, even Newton admitted to 
> standing on the shoulders of giants, and he was no shrinking violet.  
> Ask Leibniz.
>
> Anyway, if the NT codebase (which is what's currently in use, I think) 
> is a ripoff of anything, it's a rip off of VME, isn't it?
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Peter
>
> _______________________________________________
>

Rhys

Windows 1 is around 1986, 1990 would be 2.01/386 and the beginnings of 
3.0 - cause thats when I started working in IT. The fun of SUn PC/NFS 
and MS Dos....

Yep Win 1 is really old. And crap. At least they're consistent....... ;-)


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