VisiOn...Wow, haven't thought about that software for a while.
Anybody ever use it??....I remember it was a pig, requiring lots
of memory+CPU (8088 _at_ 4.77Mhz weren't going to cut it) and it
was the first package that required a mouse!
Back in 1985 I did get a chance to evaluate/use Microsoft Windows 1.0 and
Digital Research GEM (GEM was so much better!) A even better package for
multitasking was the original QuarterDeck DesQ (they later bastardized
down to a more popular lite version called DesQView). DesQ multitasked well
esp. on the original PC architecture.
Any know where I can find disk images for the software mentioned above?
Thanks,
Chandra
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of David Vohs
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 4:19 PM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Another tech legend for discussion!
I have another tech legend to be dicussed:
It is generally believed that the Apple Lisa is what spurred Bill Gates to
create Windows. But recently I have read something that says it was *not*
the Lisa that inspired Bill Gates, but that it was VisiCorp's VisiOn
software (remember that, yeah, me neither!). So my question is: Which one
was it? Was it Lisa or VisiOn?
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