[Techtalk] Re: Considering an OS change

[Sue Stones]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:30 am, Tammy Cravit wrote:
> > i believe that DOS and the mac OS were all based on unix,
> > anyway, correct?
>
> In my recollection, MacOS before OS X was based on experimental technology
> developed by Xerox PARC that I don't think ever came to market. DOS was

I believe, Xerox didn't see any value in the GUI that had been developed in 
their lab, so effectively they gave it to apple.  AS far as I know apple were 
the first to market a GUI, or if not they were the first to do it 
sucessfully.

sue