| William H. Magill on 20 Jan 2005 17:33:58 -0000 |
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On 20 Jan, 2005, at 09:55, William G. Zappasodi wrote: The father of the OS GUI is the Mac.
The mid 1980s were a big deal in the Computer world. X11 was started at MIT the same year that the Macintosh was "unveiled" -- 1984. (The First release was three years later in 1987.) As I remember, it was part of the Workstation Consortium efforts, led by DEC, SUN, MIT and a number of others. Both (as well as MS Windows) "derive" from the Xerox STAR, Graphical Information System, developed at Xerox PARC in 1981. [The STAR is formally recognized as the source of ISO/IEC 10646 - Unicode.] The GNU Manifesto was first published in 1985 in Dr. Dobb's Journal. Those were exciting times! T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 [Rev A motherboard - 300 MHz 768 Meg] OS X 10.2.8 # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.3.7 # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg] Tru64 5.1a # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV 6.7) - 384 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 magill@mcgillsociety.org magill@acm.org magill@mac.com whmagill@gmail.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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