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Posted by nappy on 04/15/06 00:19
"Specs" <No.Spam@Thanks.com> wrote in message
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>> >>>I am perfectly aware of the history of the mouse based gui. So where
> is the
>> >>>Xerox GUI now? Surely nobody can deny that Apple developed it and
>> >>>popularised it along with Commodore. M$ has always been playing
> catchup to
>> >>>someone or other.
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>> Dont leave out the Atari St and its GEM based os. Atari and Commodore had
> 512 to
>> 4096 colors when the PC and Mac had either 4 color CGA and the mac was
> Black and
>> white.
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> Quite right. One shouldn't overlook the ST's impact as GEM was the
> de-fact
> operating system for audio work. Might be the reason so many Macs ended
> up
> in the studio after its demise.
That and the fact that they had a SCSI interface onboard.
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