Microsoft closes another deal, is redhat next?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sun Jun 24 20:58:56 UTC 2007


On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:51:51 -0700
Skunk Worx <skunkworx at verizon.net> wrote:

> Kelly wrote:
> > On Saturday, June 23, 2007 1:46 am Skunk Worx wrote:
> >> MS Windows 1.0 (Wikipedia) November 1995.
> > 
> > Don't you mean 1985?  IIRC, Windows 3.1 was out in 1992...
> > 
> 
> Yes, thanks, my bad. The first Windows was demo'd at comdex in 1983 and 
> there was no 1.0 release.
> 
> Windows 1.01 was released in Nov. 1985.
> 
> http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/timeline.htm
> 
> Also the Amiga 1000 and the Atari ST were popular for GUI interfaces 
> around that time.

The Atari ST was GEM which was originally on DOS platforms and goes back
before windows somewhat.

Alan




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