OT:Re: Windows on Linux history [was Re: OT: Anyone try CorelLinux]

[Rob Saul]

Alan Mead wrote:
> 
> Sorry, this has nothin to do with RH but it is something that I've wondered
> about... whether Microsoft was original in *anything*:  Does anyone know
> what the cronology of the introduction of mouse?  I guess it was developed
> at Xerox PARC and then was used for X?  Before or after initial versions of
> Windows were created? Or did the Xerox machine run some sort of unix?

The mouse idea goes back to the late sixties or early seventies IIRC. 
Don't
think it was developed at PARC, but I could be wrong.  The Xerox PARC
system
that used one was the Star.  

The mouse idea predates MS Windows buy quite a bit.  If anything MS wass
converted by Apple.

                                                ~Rob

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