Fun_People Archive
25 Sep
I hear they invented virtual memory & laser printers, too.


Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 12:47:27 -0700
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: I hear they invented virtual memory & laser printers, too.

Forwarded-by: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)

On
    http://mstour.windows.microsoft.com/launch95/live/mstour/2_2_5_2.html

is a list of "Microsoft's Firsts", including:

   01/01/1983	Microsoft announces that Microsoft(R) Word for MS-DOS(R)
		1.0 is the first word processor to support the Mouse.

which I'm sure will come as one *fuck* of a surprise to the folks at Xerox
and Apple (unless "the Mouse" means "the Microsoft(R) Mouse(TM)")....

[Also a surprise to the folks at 3 Rivers and AT&T (makers of the Perq and the  
Blit/Jerq systems, respectively)... -psl]


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