Ok look at the history of programming language and AT&T operating system -
Prior Art
Given any one who has completed computer science course work from 1967 till present
understands that we learn from previous life-cycle of programming language(s) && operating system(s) target for specific platform - hardware or virtual - say browser or cloud
Please refer to Prior art of AT&T Bell Labs before the break up - per gov request / judgement
per rules of current game
Can I Use Someone Else's Work? Can Someone Else Use Mine?
year 1999, new york, new york a publication conference on "component" ============================ Dr. B. Meyer, was discussing, design by contract. i.e. mission critical software. i.e. "emergency dispatch call center" i.e. "parameters, specification, understanding i.e. "problem domain" a government some boat a few years ago I believe it relates a "unique type of boat" a salesman "solution provider" convince the dod to replace, quality unix base, or cs based design software. when the live or simulated testing on a boat occured. the information entered by human user behind a windows nt operating system base workstation, which meet orange book specification, with by adding some "software solutions" to conform to some "posix or unix security model". whose interface was now based on "32-bit windows" graphical user interface...... This delivery platform, was dead in "blue water" for two hours!..... Yeah microsoft deserves to be... split up just like AT&T and its Bell Labs wealth of "golden knowledge base" to increase competation and increase and develop new opportunities in the computer science information technology and management information systems realm. More "Work for all new student and legacy programmers in the field!"
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Ok look at the history of programming language and AT&T operating system -
Prior Art
Given any one who has completed computer science course work from 1967 till present
understands that we learn from previous life-cycle
of programming language(s) &&
operating system(s) target for
specific
platform - hardware or
virtual - say browser or
cloud
Please refer to Prior art of AT&T Bell Labs before the
break up - per gov request / judgement
per rules of current
game
Can I Use Someone Else's Work? Can Someone Else Use Mine?
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html
The programming language C
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/101311-ritchie-251936.html
The operating system - AT&T Unix
we all remember the nightmare of SCO - patent troll offender
http://www.pcworld.com/article/137234/sco_declares_bankruptcy.html
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/09/14/sco.bankruptcy/
So the folks who main existence started with the principle lifting from -
Original authors Basic language before - principle re-wrote for specific platform (hw)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~vox/0304/0503/basic.html
Most like various - sci fi there was the
Clone wars of
browsers on desktop computers from 90s
to present day but on different platform - now mobile devices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet_Explorer
Where apple learned from - Xerox
Borrowed Xerox Parc - GUI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrKWArr3XY
History of Spread Sheet
http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2002/cmsc434-0101/MUIseum/applications/spreadsheethistory1.html
rem Multiplan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan
Finally
OS on desktop
below is nice - visual history
oh who was the parent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_onj4isp9fY
Apple Principle
APPLE HISTORY - Keynote 1983 - Steve Jobs annouces the first Macintosh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWvCAuJ048&feature=related
Bill Gates Praising Apple Computers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uau0aIbrzkQ&feature=related
hmmm
REM past
year 1999, new york, new york a publication conference on "component" ============================ Dr. B. Meyer, was discussing, design by contract. i.e. mission critical software. i.e. "emergency dispatch call center" i.e. "parameters, specification, understanding i.e. "problem domain" a government some boat a few years ago I believe it relates a "unique type of boat" a salesman "solution provider" convince the dod to replace, quality unix base, or cs based design software. when the live or simulated testing on a boat occured. the information entered by human user behind a windows nt operating system base workstation, which meet orange book specification, with by adding some "software solutions" to conform to some "posix or unix security model". whose interface was now based on "32-bit windows" graphical user interface. ..... This delivery platform, was dead in "blue water" for two hours! ..... Yeah microsoft deserves to be ... split up just like AT&T and its Bell Labs wealth of "golden knowledge base" to increase competation and increase and develop new opportunities in the computer science information technology and management information systems realm. More "Work for all new student and legacy programmers in the field!"