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Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom  And the first year of release for Windows was what? Nineteen-eighty-something?
Seems like a pretty long year to me, in which MS have been expecting us to pay, over and over, for every 'upgrade' :( |
Indulge me going OT here.
Microsoft Windows was covered by a magazine called Creative Computing in December 1985. I remember browsing that magazine in TCS's tiny library on the 10th floor of Air-India building, Nariman Pt., 22 years ago.
As a TCS software project lead, I got to design and build a cargo container transhipment planning system around the Microsoft Windows ver. 1.03 API in the summer of 1986 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Like to think I was India's first Windows programmer. If anybody has data to the contrary, I will happily stand corrected.
The Windows graphical environment was a layer that ran on top of MS-DOS. We chose Microsoft's Windows over two other contenders, IBM's TopView and Digital Research's GEM (Graphical Environment Manager).
There was no Microsoft Europe back then and we clarified our doubts over the phone with engineers at Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Other interesting gadgets for which we wrote Windows device drivers in the summer of 1986 were Hewlett-Packard's Laser Printer, Novell's first LAN card and IBM's Enhanced Graphics Adapter which provided a graphics resolution of 640x350 and a 16-color palette. This was the world's first graphics adapter to let Windows work in color.
Sorry, got carried away.
Ram