Re: MORE SHOCKING NEWS ABOUT WIN 95

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1 total messages Started by Victor Rios Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:00

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Author: Victor Rios
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:00

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> COOPER (Coo...@cris.com) wrote:
> : gs6...@CNSVAX.ALBANY.EDU writes:
>  
> : >Well go figure.  Geoworks happens to be the company that Microsoft stole
> : >Windows from in the first place.  Their windows environment was a
hell of a l
> ot
> : >better, faster, and more efficient, but as soon as Microsoft caught
wind of i
> t,
> : >they yelled out "Hey, we've got one of those!"  Then they slapped
it together
>  
> : >as quick as they could, sold it, and patented it.  Thus, we got the oh so
> : >lovely and bug-ridden Windows 3.0.
> : >I think Geoworks should do more than sue Microsoft...
>  
>  
> : By that logic XEROX Park should be suing Geoworks...

It's XEROX PARC (Palo Alto Research Senter), not XEROX Park.  And
XEROX's STAR system has been around since the early 70s and looks a
heckuva lot more like the Mac or Windows '95 interface than the Windows
3.0 interface.

- Vic Rios
victo...@mail.amsinc.com
vr...@andrew.cmu.edu

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