19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
2:12 p.m.
Rich Alderson wrote:
One thing that I did notice the writer got completely
wrong and forgot to
comment on: The version of Windows that caused the suit was *not* v1, but
v3. Windows v1 was a tiling text interface on top of MS-DOS, and looked not
the least like anything from Apple or Xerox.
Actually Windows was never character based (in the same sense as say
TopView) in any version, though v1 did only support tiled windows. I
believe it was v2 that introduced overlapping windows and thus the Apple
lawsuit.