Another tech legend for discussion!

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Jul 8 18:56:04 2000

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, David Vohs wrote:

> 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?

VisiOn just lit a fire under his ass and made him worry that someone else
was going to capture the PC window OS market. However, from what I've
read, VisiOn did themselves in with a buggy product (I guess that only
works out if you're Microsoft, eh?)

Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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