Re: TI-82, IBM's, and the mac

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: TI-82, IBM's, and the mac
From: Wes Mininger <miningw@ELMO.NMC.EDU>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:30:12 -0400
Comments: To: Daniel Reed <djr@NARNIA.N.ML.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971009231138.6625A-100000@narnia.n.ml.org>
Reply-To: Wes Mininger <miningw@ELMO.NMC.EDU>

Nope.  Mac was a rip of Xerox's work at palo alto labs, not X... I wouldnt
say that windows was a rip on mac because it would be a natural evolution
to 'go stupid' with a GUI and M$ would have done it no matter if apple was
around or no.

On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Daniel Reed wrote:

:On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Larry G Currie wrote:
:) Question.  How many mac users are there who would own a calculator that
:) is more powerful than their computer?  And isn't the "rough interface"
:) (home screen) of the calculator, as mac'ers say it, just another version
:) of DOS being propogated by Microsoft who ripped of the "great" mac OS.
:Uhm, DOS was a rip of Digital Equipment Corp.'s CP/M. It was Windows that
:Microsoft ripped from MacOS, but MacOS in turn was just a rip of X so...
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Re: TI-82, IBM's, and the mac

From: Daniel Reed <djr@NARNIA.N.ML.ORG>