From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 25 17:34:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from death.arcdiv.com (death.arcdiv.com [64.94.4.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3AEF37B406 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 17:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@ticktockman.com) Received: from ticktockman.com (c207-202-216-52.sea1.cablespeed.com [207.202.216.52]) by death.arcdiv.com (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f7Q0YFo101070; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 20:34:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B884440.9555A61C@ticktockman.com> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 17:35:12 -0700 From: kevin godfrey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Look Cc: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk, Conrad Sabatier , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, joel2a@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers References: <4.2.2.20010803221311.00cb62e0@mail.intwebservices.com> <054111029231981PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> <01082601582601.00417@wolverine.pandora.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Indeed, the first GUI was developed by Xerox at PARC. Apple licensed the technology for around a million bucks from Xerox (Xerox didn't think home computers were going to be a big thing). MS "borrowed" the technology, if I remember correctly, they were brought to court by Apple for their "borrowing" but Apple lost on a technicality. Other things of note developed at Xerox: The Mouse and Ethernet (the guy who founded 3Com, Bob can't-remember-his-last-name worked at PARC) Dan Look wrote: > > 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. > [snip] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message