• Death Metal@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Interesting that Windows was in development before the Macintosh. To be fair, lots of 8-bit systems had experimental GUIs at the time as well.

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      1 year ago

      Microsoft was one of the first companies Apple showed the Macintosh to well before release so that they would have BASIC and office software ready

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        Sure, and both were exposed to PARC and early 80s experiments in GUIs. There was a certain amount of convergence. But it is interesting that Windows was in motion first.