You don't get it. PCS was the first gui (you moved a pointer and clicked and dragged objects) that was available to home users. It proved the popularity and usability of the GUI before Lisa or Mac did.
He says "What I would build wouldn't be a traditional OS, it wouldn't have a traditional GUI, but it would run on Macs, it would run on Wintel boxes, and we'd license it so as to make money from our competitors."
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MS's design guidelines even recommend that your entire app should be usable with keyboard-only.
You don't get it. PCS was the first gui (you moved a pointer and clicked and dragged objects) that was available to home users. It proved the popularity and usability of the GUI before Lisa or Mac did.
How can any history of the GUI be complete without Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set?
What else then? To get first posts?
Have you ever used a GUI before? You sound like you stopped using computers in 1983. I think you need to upgrade your skills.
about writing a God-damned web browser?
He says "What I would build wouldn't be a traditional OS, it wouldn't have a traditional GUI, but it would run on Macs, it would run on Wintel boxes, and we'd license it so as to make money from our competitors."
What, Java?
I'm gonna smack you upside the head.
Yeah but look at how much people talk about Linux :/
what this means? Scroll to "And now for some not so nice things".
I'm gonna smack you upside the head.
Look what happened to Dmitry!
crack?
Why don't you submit this as a story to the editors?
The moon is a man-made surveillance ballon used to catch runaway AI's.
hahaha! Sure, send 10 or 20x the data down the pipeline. That'll work great on PC architecture!
I can run DX1 games still on Win2K/DX8 no problem.
*yawn*