Kevin J. Cummings: >> While the exactness of the OP's statement is probably hard to prove >> beyond the shadow of a doubt, I do believe his statement that "Unix >> predates MS-anything" is generally true. Mike McCarty: > MicroSoft produced stuff for CBM machines at approximately the > time they were introduced. Unless you believe that Microsoft was involved in mainframes back in the 1960s, Unix definitely predates it. But, as pointed out, this may be about apples and oranges. If Microsoft is carrying on about GUI-related patents, they *may* have been the first to do it that way (though they, and Apple, copied others before them). But we don't know what Microsoft is concerned over. There's many other aspects to computing beyond the GUI. Microsoft is but a spotty teenager. -- (This box runs Centos 5.0, my others still run FC 4, 5, 6, & 7, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
