On Sat, Aug 16,
2014 at 3:31 AM, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote:
I am very pleased to announce, and be done with,
the scanning of a
small stack of CompuServe Magazine, the magazine sent to subscribers
of the online service of the same name. There are 19 issues in all,
various months from 1990, 91 and 92...
Cool. I wasn't on CompuServe then (and I didn't work there until
1994), but I have one issue from when I _was_ a member, March 1986. I
should scan it and add it to the pile.
Much the same content, but all pre-Windows.
While I realize that 99.9% of everyone who uses the term
"Windows" is referring to certain current operating systems,
TSX-Plus had "Windows" support for multiple jobs which
used the same terminal on the PDP-11 well before 1986.
Of course, refreshing the screen using a serial terminal at
9600 baud could take one or two seconds and the method
was to use "<CTRL/W>n", but that does not distract from
the fact that TSX-Plus had full blown "Windows" support
far in advance of the PC systems.
Please DO NOT make any responses an argument over
the current "Windows" features. I simply wanted to correct
the record and that "Windows" support originated long before
1986 and probably with more than just TSX-Plus. If there
are any replies, please do so ONLY to mention any other
operating systems that supported "Windows" before 1986
and how it was done.
Jerome Fine