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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-01-03 , 21:28
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Originally Posted by mattbutsko View Post
Yeah I don't really feel like reading up on anything.
That's bad. Real bad. Like you're saying that you'd rather just spout false information if it serves your purposes.

You really can't say "Wow, just wow." to a non-well known fact.
It's only a rather marked part of computing history, hell it was featured in a made for TV movie that focused on the rise of Apple and Microsoft. This is not some obscure bit of computing trivia, it defined a lot of what followed in the decade.

Let me rephrase what I had previously stated. Microsoft made the consumer level graphical OS.
Except this is still false, as Windows appeared for the first time in 1985 while the Mac was out in 1984. And this was AFTER the failed run with the Lisa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

Please, if you don't at least perform a cursory fact checking before posting stuff like this you WILL get called out. Especially in places like this.
 

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