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rmoser <mlmoser@comcast.net> writes:

> >Nowdays very few programs show any genuinely new ideas.  For the
> >greater part, they are new implementations of very old concepts.  Take
> >Microsoft.  They produce operating systems and word processors.  They
> >were not by far the first to do either of these.  Actually, I can't
> >think of anything where MS has come up with something really new.  The
> >idea of using a display (possibly graphical) with multiple windows was
> >at one time such a new thing.  
> 
> wtf?  Wasn't that W?  (the W windowing system)

Read carefully again.  I did *not* say that MS invented window
systems, quite the contrary.  What I said, was that the invention,
whenever it took place and whoever the inventor, was, at that time, a
new thing.  All later window systems are, in Larry's sense, copies of
the first one.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net