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Article #388Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: Gregory John Casamento
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 05:11
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 05:11
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jim frost (jimf@world.std.com) wrote: : Not really; Windows was a response to VisiOn, an interface made by the : folks that brought you VisiCalc. VisiOn never made it to market. True... very true!! : Anybody who used Windows 1.x knows better anyway -- it bore no : resemblance whatsoever to the Mac. I have an old copy of the mag "Computers & Electronics" which has a pic of Windows 1.0. Kludgy, text based, ugly... all true today except for the "text based" thing. : jim frost : jimf@world.std.com : -- : http://www.std.com/homepages/jimf -- Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu NeXTSTEP -- The Operating system of the future, today!! Stop the evil Microsoft now before it's too late!! #include <std_disclaimer.h>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!gcasa From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!! Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Date: 3 Aug 1995 05:11:16 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Message-ID: <3vplpk$4rq@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> References: <3scn95$vpl@magma.Mines.Colorado.EDU> <phoward-2206951645410001@psb100-2.usc.edu> <3smqdb$lab@magma.Mines.Colorado.EDU> <3sn9ii$ji0@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <3sng4q$l98@magma.Mines.Colorado.EDU> <3sovp9$8ie@anshar.shadow.net> <3sskhm$3gg@magma.Min <3tqdc5$59b@news.rrnet.com> <3u8t37$k3q@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu> <DBtFo2.164@wombat.hanse.de> <docjoe-1707951040230001@ip21.wilmington.de.interramp.com> <3um5uj$p2@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <3umdi6$25b@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <DC18sL.Au6@world.std.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rac2.wam.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0]