Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending

[John]

Dan Ganek wrote:

> Christopher C. Stacy wrote:
> 
>>>>>>>On Sat, 08 May 2004 03:21:58 GMT, Dan Ganek ("Dan") writes:
>> 
>>  Dan> The first commercial system was the PERQ circa 1978.
>> 
>> Are you sure about that date?
>> I think you might be off by 4 or 5 years.
> 
> Hmm I did more googling and you may be right.
> (One should always double check their facts :-)
> 
> I was doing R&D in GUI's and graphic workstations
> at DEC during that time (78-84) and it's all a big
> a blur now. It was a very exciting time - Smalltalk,
> Star, Perq, Lisa, Apollo, the Mac, etc.
> 
> /dan

It definitely was, Dan. Ah, the good old days! Hey, didn't the Pro have a
GUI? I recall seeing it run something like VisiOn, which it booted into.