[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[Felmon Davis]

On Friday 29 March 2002 04:31 pm, Erick Andrews wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:40:57 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >ad (b): no one has spoken to this. I thought Geoworks and
> > something called Multiplan preceded Windows. (is the latter a MS
> > invention?)
>
> If you mean MS Windows as a GUI, I recall we had a discussion about
> that here some years ago.  It went through Apple, XWindows, Xerox,
> DECWindows and maybe some others.  I don't remember in detail the
> timeline, but GUI's were around before MS Windows.

no, I think what was meant was either the data exchange stuff among 
apps (OLE, DDE) or putting apps together conveniently in an office 
suite like MS Office, PerfectOffice, Smartsuite, StarOffice, Koffice, 
Clarisworks and whatever else.

F.