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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