On 2014-07-26, 4:40 AM, TOM WALKER -> ERIC OULASHIN wrote:   
    EO>> Just for humor - Windows 8's tiled interface looks very similar to   
    TW> Windows 1   
    EO>> (1985):   
    EO>> http://bit.ly/WNzMU0   
      
    TW> I never saw Windows 1.0 but understand it was one of the biggest   
    TW> disasters in Computer History.   
    TW> ---   
   Not necessarily a disaster - a necessary piece in an evolution of PC hardware   
   and software.   
      
   I ran it for a while on a 26 lb 'luggable' portable PC with 512 kb RAM, two 5   
   1/4" floppy disk drives, and a 20 MB hard drive. 8" green on black CRT screen.   
      
   It was forced by the hardware of the day (remember, it was released in Nov   
   1985 - significantly late) to be able to run on a system with 256 kb of memory   
   and two floppy disk drives - no hard drive. On that minimal system,   
   performance was (no surprise!) poor... non-graphical multitasking systems   
   offered better performance, but Windows 1.0 showed the possibilities of   
   bit-mapped screens and multitasking on PC hardware.   
      
   (It also showed that Microsoft had no sense of graphical design, and was prone   
   to release software late).   
      
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