From: Chuck Clark <c.clark@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada
Date: 1999/02/04
Date: 1999-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36B971FE.535A3BE@mail.utexas.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 79bp1n$fd5$1@remarQ.com
I thought xerox had the first color 'windows' type system
in the late 60's or 70's but never followed throught with it
and got out of computers all together for some other
product.
> When I was looking through Niklause Wirth description of language predefined
> modules I found to my great surprise that he defined root Module "Windows"
> and two descendant from it, namely "TextWindows" and "GraficWindows" as
> well as "Menu" and "CursorMenu" modules that were used to create GUI for
> "Lilith" OS written in Modula-2.
>
> How about that, then! First "Windows" was created before Bill Gates wrote
> his "DOS" for IBM PC.
> Just imagine. It was almost ten years before Microsoft Windows appeared. And
> it was multitasking system.
>
> I
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-22 0:00 Time to join the fold? Mike Silva
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-04 0:00 ` M2 history - relations to Ada news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Grant Edwards
1999-02-04 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` G.S. Vigneault
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chuck Clark [this message]
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Borchert
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) nabbasi
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Modula 2 William Clodius
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) Al Christians
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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