From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 25 16:58:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pop3.telenet-ops.be (pop3.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE30C37B409 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@electriccheese.com) Received: from wolverine.pandora.be (D5E0036B.kabel.telenet.be [213.224.3.107]) by pop3.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F3D69BB23; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:58:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Dan Look To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk, "Stuart Duckworth" , Conrad Sabatier , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, joel2a@yahoo.com Subject: RE: Microsoft bashers Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:57:45 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <4.2.2.20010803221311.00cb62e0@mail.intwebservices.com> <054111029231981PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <054111029231981PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01082601582601.00417@wolverine.pandora.be> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The first GUI's were developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre) (or so I've allways been told). And then first brought to public attention by Apple (mostly). I guess the early internet/arpanet ran mostly on Unix but I beleive TCP/IP was developed with cross platform compatability specifically in mind. And yes it's true, up untill around '95 MS had little or no interest in the 'net. Regards Dan On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Stuart Duckworth wrote: > On 25 Aug 01, at 15:03, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > > > > On 04-Aug-2001 joel2a@yahoo.com wrote: > > > Well I just have to say that if there wasn't Windows we would all be > > > back the days of console prompt typing and there certainly would not be > > > as many people on the internet. > > > > Anyone who begins a post with a statement as absurdly ridiculous as this > > deserves only one of two things (or both): to be ignored or killfiled. > > > > Joel, if history wasn't the way it is, it would be different. That does > not preclude development of the internet nor something like > Windows but different. And the internet started as Unix, IIRC. > Until recently Bill Gates was on public record as saying that the > internet was not going to be important ... even the devil can be > wrong ;-)) And I do believe that GUIs were invented elsewhere and > Microsoft copied and even purloined some of > the code. Though I stand to be corrected about that. > > Conrad, your reply to Joel was somewhat OTT, but heartfelt for all > that. > > Happy computing, chaps ;-)) > > Stuart > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message