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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Workstation Aesthetics
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:40:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote at 12:17 this Tuesday (GMT):
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 23:23:23 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/6/2024 8:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 13:31:56 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 6/4/2024 7:36 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Remember, the big advance in Windows 95 was in actually having a
>>>>>> “Start” menu for the first time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another feature for bereft-of-ideas GuhNoo/FOSS copycats to clone.
>>>> 
>>>> *nix systems had application menus some years before that. Remember
>>>> they had GUIs before Microsoft Windows even existed.
>>> 
>>> "Microsoft first demonstrated a window manager to the press in September
>>> 1983."
>>
>> Windows had no application menu until Windows 95.
>
>    "In 1973, Xerox PARC developed the Alto personal computer. It had a bitmapped
>    screen, and was the first computer to demonstrate the desktop metaphor and
>    graphical user interface (GUI)."


Oh yeah, didn't they end up making no money off that?
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