On Tuesday 01 Dec 2009 14:17:11 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
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.
Ye Gads GEM now that was Hummmm terrible would be way to polite Amstrad PC1640 with dos think it was 2.1 and GEM Desktop on a series of coloured 5.25" floppys Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4- default KDE: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1" 22:29 up 10 days 12:19, 4 users, load average: 0.54, 0.59, 0.41