[Am-info] History of Windows

[Eric M. Hopper]

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 20:40, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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

X existed as X10 before it existed as X11.  Also, looking at commercial
release dates is pretty misleading for Unix software.  Unix has had a
long tradition of open source and free software.

Windows 1.0 was used.  A company I worked for when I was 17 had a very
old version of Pagemaker for Windows 1.0.  It was the strangest thing. 
I couldn't really use Windows all by itself, but only in the context of
Pagemaker.  It required a 386 to run well then, when a 16 MHz 386 was
the fastest thing on the planet.

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