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Article #61Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: Lawson English
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:32
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:32
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David P. Summers (Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.ARC.NASA.gov) wrote:
: > Apple mimiced Xerox PARC research. All you can really say is that Apple
: > purchased the rights to a good idea before Microsoft did. Too bad they
: > haven't don't that recently.
: They also staked their future on putting out a product based on the
: new technology (I remember all the prediction that the Mac would
: fail and bring Apple down with it). Microsoft carefully waited
: until Apple showed that the technology could make money before
: jumping in.
And they didn't even mimic the technology in the way that the original
author suggested.
It is amazing what bad popular writing will do to reinforce marketing
myths...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.primenet.com!english From: english@primenet.com (Lawson English) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel 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 Date: 31 Jul 1995 16:32:13 GMT Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010 Message-ID: <3vj0id$jqo@nnrp2.primenet.com> References: <phoward-2206951645410001@psb100-2.usc.edu> <3smqdb$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 <adtDC1JBt.n0A@netcom.cm NNTP-Posting-Host: usr4.primenet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]