Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[marc@objectconnections.com (Marc Walters)]

Ruud Dingemans <rtech@home.nl> wrote in message news:<b0jrbo$oag$1@news2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>...
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> Take a wild guess: Windows 1.0 came out more than a year *after* Lisa 
> hit the market (1985). It also imitated several design ideas that only 
> the Lisa had, like pull down menus and a menu bar - and it even had a 
> "file/view/special" menu implementation, just like the Mac (from 1984).

Don't forget the other half-dozen PC GUI systems competing with the
late-entry MS Windows 1.0 in the mid 1980's, some of which were
technically and graphically superior. And also had such a menuing
system - although one of the main competitors had bottom-border menus
that expanded upwards!

Marc