Unix [was: do...until wisdom needed...]
Ben Hutchings
ben.hutchings at roundpoint.com
Thu May 10 15:57:50 EDT 2001
Darren New <dnew at san.rr.com> writes:
> Douglas Alan wrote:
> > DOS, which was the competition at the time, not Windoze 3.1,
>
> Actually, I think Windows 1 was out much earlier than windows 3. DOS was
> just the *successful* competition from Microsoft. ;-) And of course
> Xenix was around there somewhere too.
Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. I've never used it, but it was
apparently quite useless. I remember Windows 2.0, though; in my
experience, people whose computers came with it pre-installed kept it
only so they could play the games that were included.
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