On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:06:49AM +0000, Joe wrote: > 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... [...] > > 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 [...] Exactly. They "stole" from a "thief" [1]. The first credible "cluster" forming around GUIs (concepts, programming languages, software and hardware) was Xerox PARC [2]. Other things we take for granted these days (laser printers and Ethernet) were incubated there. A testament on what human creativity is capable of if you fund it well and keep management at bay. Cheers [1] The scare quotes are there because I don't believe in such a thing as "intellectual property". Sure, author's rights make sense, and correct attribution, but woning an idea as I might own a pair of shoes seems monstrously ridiculous to me. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC - t
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