[Am-info] History of Windows

[Hans Reiser]

zoro980@home.com wrote:

>
>>Are you sure about that?  Understanding that Windows existed in 1.0 and 2.0
>>versions before it became popular with the the 3.0 release.  I thought
>>Windows was out *before* X.
>>
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>http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/windows.htm
>Windows 1.0 1985
>Windows 2.0 1987
>Windows 3.0 1990
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>http://www.saao.ac.za/unix/node66.html
>X11R?? 1986
>X11R2  1988
>
>I was using a Sun2 workstation with X when Windows 3.0 came out.
>
>Mark
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well, if you were using X11, please remember that X10 came out before 
X11....

Sun had a window manager before X, what made X special was that you 
could put an application's windows up on other computers on the network....

I believe MS Windows still cannot do that, some 18 or so years later....

Hans