Ron,
I have yet to be convinced that the later versions of WinDoze are stable enough to maintain real-time stuff. I have a Honeywell system that requires Win 3.11 with a very particular OLD 3-COM network card, and an old EISA, high resolution (1028 x ? ) video card, to access the PLC. Without that particular combination of hardware the PLC is absolutely inaccessible! The remote operator stations must use later versions (95, 98, SE, NT, etc) to accomodate Ethernet. The network is crashing all of the time.
I'm in Honeywell HELL!
Now, with regards to...
"I can state that Windows was Bill Gates thing and that neither created the first GUI. PARC created the Alto which was the first GUI based computer (the size of a desk) and both used the idea to create their own GUI. My favorite GUI was dos based, it was named Xtree Gold.
The mouse was actually invented in the 60's and marketed by Xerox in the 70's.
Apple did originally develop the technology based on the IEEE 1394 standard, they named it firewire.
IBM introduced the floppy drive in the 70's.
Actually Sun developed and used Java first, technically Sun has battled alot of companies on the use/modification of their java technology.
I dont know that Jobs or Gates either one actually brought anything new into the market, they were both good at creating a market "share". "
First, I gotta say, X-Tree Gold is nothing but "GOLD"! (That was supposed to be dark gold but it is what it is.)
I use it all the time. I still have it running on my process PCs (DOS-based).
Now, on to the rest...
Only the name "Windows" was a billy thing... but then again, maybe not.
The "Window-CONCEPT" and the "Mouse" was developed by Xerox at PARC.
Stevie Wonder (Jobs) grabbed both (stole it) from Xerox (PARC) for Apple. And then Billy grabbed both (stole it) from Apple for MicroSoft.
And then, billy and his boys decided to call it "WINDOWS", or "WinDOZE" as some are inclined to call it.
With respect to...
"The mouse was actually invented in the 60's and marketed by Xerox in the 70's.
I can only say... not hardly... what would be the impetus... there was no PC Video, let alone PC, at the time. Maketed in the 60's... for what? (ahhh... but then, with a little after thought... there was that "PONG" thing, But still, maketed for what?).
I can't argue about Fire-Wire and the Floppy-disk.
I totally agree that SUN developed "JAVA"... I have many friends from my old FPS days that were involved with the development of "JAVA". And I followed the legal battles that ensued. I was outraged to hear, at the time, that billy-boy was gaining sway... until he lost that sway.
BTW. Billy and his boys didn't even develop DOS... he "stole" it from a technician in Seattle, that was into the Altair-PC (SP?) from that Radio Magazine at the time (a long time ago, or was it an Electronics Magazine?) , for a song,,, a one time price. Damn, that guy could be very rich by now... if not dead.
