[Foss-cafe] Commentary: Microsoft Invented Personal Computing?
Patrick Shanahan
paka at wahoo.no-ip.org
Sat Apr 17 15:47:54 CDT 2004
* Timothy R. Butler <tbutler at uninetsolutions.com> [04-17-04 15:40]:
> Go on a street corner and ask John Q. Public who invented personal
> computing. Betcha he says Microsoft, closely followed by IBM, only then
> trailed by Apple. Certainly the Altair won't get much credit either...
>
> I'd also say that most people don't realize how many Windows concepts
> were stolen from Apple.
And here I started with a giant VIC-20 with an audio tape hanging on
the back for file storage, or was that the Commodore-64.
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Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
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