Re: [libreoffice-users] LibO Impress and Audio.... Is XP the culprit?

It's rather hilarious actually. Berkeley Softwarks had a better GUI running
on the Commodore C64 computer in 1990/91 than Microsoft had on the X86
platform up until they released Windows 98. Yeah, it had limits because of
the hardware, but when you consider what they made that hardware do using
only a 160K floppy disk...

It was completely amazing.

Wayne



On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom@neuroweave.nl> wrote:

> On 20/04/11 17:16, Wayne Borean wrote:
>
> > I'll disagree with that. Windows didn't open the World. Unix did. Windows
> > just imitated what Unix did, ten years later.
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> >
> >  I second that. Moreover, Bill Gates wrenched DOS from a few nerds in, I
> thought 1981 and sold it to IBM. The only reason IBM went for Bill Gates was
> the fact that the company who had developed CP/M ( then one of the most
> versatile OSes implemented on various computers from Osborne to Amstrad and
> many others) refused IBM exclusivity.
> Microsoft developed Windows much later - in 1983 if I remember correctly
> -The Windows GUI was not invented by Microsoft but was originally developed
> in a XEROX laboratory in I thought Palo Alto. It was first kidnapped by
> Apple and claimed as their own and later by Microsoft (American lawyers have
> had field years on the lawsuits by MS against Apple and vice versa.
> Unix on the other hand came into in existence in 1979 in the Bell
> Laboratories by Kernigan and Richie (Yes, the ones who also developed C).
> So only due to not-so-nice marketing tricks most computer-illiterates
> nowadays think that Microsoft invented all the things that let computers
> run, but that's completely untrue.
> Joep

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