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Joe Thompson
Scott Lurndal wrote
Thats a lie, there was a lot more too the later Wins than anything Xerox had.
Apple didnt even have multitasking for quite a while.
They had multitasking from the advent of MultiFinder in 1987 (or
arguably even earlier with Switcher in 1985, but I don't know if
Switcher allowed applications to actually execute instructions while
backgrounded.)
Dunno what you consider "quite a while". Switcher was done on the Mac
about six months after Andy Hertzfeld saw Memory Shift running on DOS.
Switcher was out the door about 7 months before Windows 1.0.
Nope, not with networking that even stupid users could use.
Actually, yes. Winsock was a vast improvement on its successor, Win95
Dial-Up Networking. With Winsock the majority of the configuration was
done on a single screen (all of it unless you needed a special dial
script).
And even later Windows' network stacks acknowledged their BSD heritage
in places like the HOSTS file.
Quite a bit of the detail was nothing like either.
IE was actually licensed from Spyglass, which in turn had licensed bits
related to Mosaic from NCSA. So it was a lineal descendant of Mosaic.
How odd that Linux has used so much of the UI seen with Win.
Which I find frustrating, as if I wanted Windows on my desktop, I'd run
that. -- Joe