Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 01:29:13 +0000
Kanito 73 <kanito73@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I hate Windoze as an operating system but some programs and games are
> cool... And there is a fact: THE ONE WHO HITS FIRST, HITS TWICE
> (translated from spanish). Bill Gates was pioneer of the graphical
> environments (when computers had simple text terminals) and further
> graphical operating systems.
Actually he didn't. Microsoft was contracted to write software for the
Apple Mac (Office), and learned enough about writing for windowing
environments to make its own one (badly).
The Lisa was Apple's first computer with a graphical desktop, and Apple
had got many of the ideas from Xerox. The Lisa appeared in 1983, and the
first (unusable) version of Windows arrived in the mid-80s. It wasn't
until Windows 3 (1990) that it became practical, with 3.1 becoming
widely used, and even then it was just an application run under DOS.
Windows 95 was the first version to behave pretty much like today's
version (though more limited, a full installation was about 25MB, as
opposed to about 80GB today. Is it really 3000 times better now?).
What Microsoft did that was different was to licence its operating
system for use on other manufacturers' computers, which started with
writing DOS for the IBM PC. Apple insisted on building its own hardware,
and Acorn in the UK followed this business model.
--
Joe
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