Re: Rewriting computing history...

[Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>]

Jeff Thomas wrote:
> What I find really annoying is how some big players in the computer
> industry are trying to rewrite microcomputer history, by presenting a
> distorted picture of what really happened.
>
> Microsoft would be the worst one by trying to claim credit for
> everything they done without mentioning which companies they brought or
> copied from. For example on the "Windows Me" loading screen it says,
> '1981-2000' - in 1981, there was no Windows! 

That's there because of the program that loads Windows ME - MS-DOS, and 
it was copyrighted in 1981.


Perhaps, Apple ought to
> retaliate and put '1976-2002' on their loading screen!!

Not unless they're using an Apple II to launch Mac/OS


> I hate that Apple has so few references to Apple II computer, like
> pretending it never existed 

At the bottom of their webpages and announcements they always refer to 
the II.

Roy

and that the Macintosh was the saviour of
> the company, when in actual fact the reverse is true for the entire
> decade of the 1980s. It would be nice, if they mentioned that AppleWorks
> came from the Apple II and outsold Lotus 1-2-3 on IBM PC at one stage -
> which is true!
>
> What does anyone else think?



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