Of course it was. We all know that. Bill Gates didn't like the complicated Unix command line interface and created a more simple one. ... or adopted one because DOS wasn't an original Bill Gates idea. Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:30 PM Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux > wasn't unix even before msdos? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at home.ro> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:31 PM > Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux > > > > Of course you're right. > > Unix was before Windows. > > > > Teddy, > > orasnita at home.ro > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley at ec.rr.com> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:25 AM > > Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > Both SAS and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) were > born > > on > > > mainframes. The windows versions are simply ports. The historical > > > spreadsheet program of course is 1.2.3 and/or twin. As for database > > > programs it's d-base. Remember word star? If my memory serves me > > correct, > > > these were born under cp/m? > > > > > > Cecil > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
