Adam Tauno Williams said the following on 12/01/2009 09:17 AM:
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 08:56 -0500, Anton Aylward wrote:
G T Smith said the following on 12/01/2009 06:31 AM:
As I remember using a Sun box with a GUI interface in about 1985ish (and it had been around for some time then), Indeed. About 1983 for me. The MAC came out in 1984, and I recall Windows followed other, technically better products for the PC.
Such as what? GEM, GeoWorks, Quarterdeck? Ever look into developing applications on those platforms? I did, at least for GEM and GeoWorks - Microsoft Windows has *awesome* in comparison [ from a developers perspective ]. Holy *@^*&^$ where those terrible platforms.
That's probably a good reason why they died :-) But I recall that in '84/5 I was working at a shop where we were using SUN workstations but needed a 'cheaper' platform for customers. Demos of all of the above showed they were more responsive than MS-Windows at that time, and this appealed more to management. (I left shortly after, just before their 2nd stage financing failed.) If you recall, back then, Microsoft wasn't the leader it is now. It was just another one of the pack. If you want a take of why Microsoft did pull ahead of the pack shortly after that, and its not due to technical excellence!, try "In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590597214?ie=UTF8&tag=emergentprope-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1590597214 Its well worth a couple of bucks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org