2007-02-04 02:38:53 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Frugernity is basically correct, but there is more to the story. PARC was based on previous work at MIT where the first mouse system (with three buttons) was developed. Apple built on the work at PARC but Microsoft didn’t do so.
At the same time as Apple was doing its development work, Amiga was developing a competitive (and in my opinion) a better system. As with Apple it was based on the Motorola 6800 (later the 68000) microchip developed by a team led by the innovative Jay Miner.
After both Apple and Amiga proved the worth of the interface they had developed Microsoft finally bit the bullet and developed their own such software. However Microsoft made the mistake of basing this one the Intel Chip which was inferior to the Motorola Chip. Those old enough to remember will recall the addressing barrier that Intel ran into with its inferior design, something that never happened with the Motorola chip.
When first getting a personal review of the Amiga Woz (Apple’s Stephan Gary Wozniak) is reported to have said, that is what the Macintosh was suppose to be.
The power and design of the Amiga was demonstrated by the Newtek Toaster, the greatest innovation into video editing, when the Amiga was the selected platform for the “toaster.” This occurred even though the toaster developers were all aficionados of the Macintosh and tried to use that as the platform but failed.
With its new Vista system Microsoft is only now reaching the capability of the Amiga and its Amiga DOS of more than ten years ago. Even so, Microsoft has not come close to the quality of the operating system of the Amiga. Amiga DOS is truly the desk top heir of Unix philosophy. I can remember running on a 500K memory Amiga 15 programs all running at the same time.
For a look into the life and achievements of Jay Miner and the Amiga, follow the source links:
2007-02-04 04:16:36 · answer #1 · answered by Randy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole graphical user interface (GUI) concept was developed by Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Included windows that were resizable and minimizable, icons representing files, folders and programs, WYSIWYG fonts, drag and drop objects, etc. etc. etc.
Apple stole those ideas as did Microsoft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc
2007-02-04 10:45:42 · answer #2 · answered by frugernity 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO, Microsoft stole the idea of the GUI - Graphic User Interface, from Macintosh!
2007-02-04 10:42:29 · answer #3 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes of course
2007-02-06 05:45:17 · answer #4 · answered by shabaz khan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋