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From: Chuck Clark <c.clark@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada
Date: 1999/02/04
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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