Re: visual c++ equivalent
On 15-12-2004 20:45,H. S. wrote:
> Apparently, _Mason Loring Bliss_, on 15/12/04 14:30,typed:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:13:28PM -0500, H. S. wrote:
>>
>>
>>> However, I believe that the GUI that MS has given to the masses has
>>> played a very beneficial role in the GUI development in Unix/Linux
>>> world.
>>
>>
>>
>> To credit Microsoft with this is unfortunate and incorrect.
>>
>> Credit Apple with bringing the GUI to the desktop. They released the Lisa
>> in 1983, and then the Macintosh 128K in 1984, which was immediately
>> popular.
>> Microsoft release Windows 1.0 near the end of 1985. Windows did not
>> become
>> popular until version 3.1, which was released in October of *1992*.
>>
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>
> I never said MS "invented" the GUI, only that it made it so widely
> available (by hook or by crook).
I'd rather say they've "stolen" the GUI idea ;-) Watch the "Pirates from
the Silicon Valley" movie - a nice, easy film of the beginning of Apple
and MS :)
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