GUI

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Nov 27 23:12:02 UTC 2003


William Park wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:19:08PM -0500, Lance F. Squire wrote:
> 
>>William Park wrote:
>>
>>>Windows is way better and original. 
>>
>>Original! Hardly.
>>
>>Mac was first, and even they copyed an old Xerox system most people 
>>never heard about.
>>
>>Digital Reserch's GEM enviroment, Primarily on Atari STs though also 
>>available for the PCs, and Commodore's 'Intuition' were fully functional 
>>GUI desktops when 'Windows' was little more than a graphical shell for DOS.
>>
>>I'm sure 'X' predates it also.
> 
> 
> I had Atari and Mac, and, even then, Windows 3.1 was better.
> 

You mean the same W3.1 where you couldn't nest folders?  The same GUI 
where everything ground to a halt, when you used the floppy?  That's 
better???


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