Another tech legend for discussion!

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Sat Jul 8 22:24:19 2000

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:

> 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?)

There were a bunch of those software products (Desqview, TopView, etc.)
that came out about that time, too. As I recall, only Desqview was
considered particularly good, at least until Windows 3.1 came out...
Received on Sat Jul 08 2000 - 22:24:19 BST