> > The Xerox OS, (I don't remember it's name), Star.
> was very slick, > supposedly worked wonderfully, and if anyone should have > filed suit, it should have been Xerox. > They did. After Apple went for Microsoft, Xerox went for Apple. I think they settled out of court. There's a timeline of GUIs here: http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html The one that surprises me is the Perq. I'd completely forgotten about it, but it was marketed by ICL a long time ago and I seem to remember seeing one back in the early 80s, even before I'd seen GEM on a PC. ICL wrote briliant operating systems. Most of the later GUIs are just window managers on top of X - very important piece of software. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
