Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Lawson English
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:00

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David Breneman (david.breneman@mccaw.com) wrote:
: In article <3v7sem$8t0@mudraker.mtholyoke.edu> jbmiller@mtholyoke.edu (Mac)  
: writes:
: > Overlapping windows preceeded the mac in a RESEARCH LAB.  One I might add 
: > not everyone had access to.  Xerox invited Jobs and co. there, because 
: > they figured Apple could make cheap versions of their Xerox Smalltalk 
: > boxes, something they hadn't figured out how to do.  This was after the 
: > agreement between Xerox and Apple, to allow Apple access to the research 
: > being done at Xerox PARC.  
: > 
: > Yes, they preceeded the Mac, but not in ANY released system.
: >                                         ^^^

: How about layers(1) and the Teletype 5620 DMD terminal?  That was
: released in 1984.  Personally, I don't know how long Macs have been
: around, so if there were on the market in 1983, I'm wrong.  BTW, the
: DMD software was called "The AT&T Windowing Utilities", which definitely
: predates Microsoft's use of the word.  I cite as my source authority *me*.
: I'm the keeper of the tty5620 FAQ. :-)

Macs were released in January of 1984, I believe. The Lisa was released a 
year earlier. The XEROX PARC machines were shipping well before that but 
were 3x as expensive as the Lisa, as I recall (about $30,000).


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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
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