Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

["wildstar128" <wildstar128@hotmail.com>]

"Ruud Dingemans" <rtech@home.nl> wrote in message
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> (Besides, everybody + dog seems to think it was Xerox which invented the
> whole graphical/mouse thing of controlling a computer with the Alto from
> 1973. In fact it was Engelbart and SRI since 1963, culminating in the
> famous 1968 demo, so if anything, Xerox was taking other people's ideas
> itself.)

I viewed the demonstration of the program. You are quite correct. The demo
was beautiful. It was mostly text structured but had a legendary
demonstration of a mouse. Which inspired Xerox team in around 1978-1980. The
difference was Xerox evolved the concept further with actual Graphical
environment. Then a couple years later Apple came by and then developed an
even more evolved GUI for the Lisa and perfected it more with Mac.

So we know Billy, heard of the GUI and wanted to make their own so they
started with a version that fitted more closely to their DOS platform. Thus
Windows 1.0 was not an OS but an Operating Environment. M$ never built a
true GUI OS until Windows NT era. Removing DOS.

As we all know, new ideas are built upon previous ideas. There is no such
thing as completely new - never been thought of ideas. Its just making them
real. The C-One is not a completely new "idea" but a culmination of ideas
brought into one device in ways that where not previously thought of in one
device. The idea of culminating ideas in the way it is makes it personally
Jeri's project.