[Am-info] History of Windows

[Geoffrey]

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.
>>
> 
> http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/windows.htm
> Windows 1.0 1985
> Windows 2.0 1987
> Windows 3.0 1990
> 
> 
> http://www.saao.ac.za/unix/node66.html
> X11R?? 1986
> X11R2  1988


Various docs I've located indicate 1984 for X11R2, therefore, it would 
have been before windows 1.0 (was 1.0 even used???)

Here are couple of links.  The third one actually has a very interesting 
time line listed, which reinforces the fact that X came before M$ windows.

http://www.cs.concordia.ca/help/tutorials/XWin.html#SECTION2
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XWindow-User-HOWTO-2.html
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/invitedtalks/gettys_html/text5.htm


> 
> I was using a Sun2 workstation with X when Windows 3.0 came out.
> 
> Mark
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