[Wolves] Hi.

[steve parkes]

>From: Aquarius <aquarius-lists@kryogenix.org>
>Reply-To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
>To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Wolves] Hi.
>Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:54:23 +0100
>
>Simon Howes spoo'd forth:
> > 1) Because M$ say they invented the GUI. (my gosh!!)  RISCOS was in a 
>16bit
> > GUI when x86 Windows was stuck in 8bit command prompt.  Umm.
> > Element14 have a lot of backing towards this from many companies such as
> > Apple, SUN, Cray, IBM etc.  Apple actually worked with Acorn with their 
>GUI
> > by inventing the mouse.  Which M$ claim is their invention and Apple are
> > currently halfway through a court case trying to prove M$ right, but 
>guess
> > what, the Judge is an ex-M$ fanboy.
>
>Hm. The WIMP environment was, if we're going to be technical, invented
>at Xerox PARC. Nonetheless, I was happily using RISC OS 2 well before
>there was a significant Windows on the scene. And Arthur before that ;)
>
>SYS "Wimp_Poll". Woo! I remember that :)
>
Does anyone remember Gem before MS sued them for overlapping windows and the 
like and it turned into a midnight commander thing?

I seem to remember that RiscOS looked a lot like GEM in the early days ;-)

sparkes

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