Re: ibm-compadible vs the Mac

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From: Vaughan
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 00:00

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Gabriel Rotskos (grotskos@compulink.gr) wrote:
: Are you sure that Windows 95 was the first OS that had contextual
: menus? Because I think that while Win95 had them before MacOS, it
: didn't pioneer them. When we talk about Microsoft stealing things from
: the Mac, we are talking about things Apple pioneered: not the windows
: and the mouse, but the desktop, the trash can, the Apple menu etc.

    Actually most of the GUI stuff wasn't invented by Apple or Microsoft
it was developed at Xerox PARC in the 70's.  MS and Apple just ported it to
personal computers.

	Vaughan.

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From: shanks@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (Vaughan)
Subject: Re: ibm-compadible vs the Mac
Date: 1997/09/24
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