Another tech legend for discussion!

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Jul 9 17:01:45 2000

"David Vohs" <netsurfer_x1_at_hotmail.com> 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?

What makes you think that it had to be one or the other exclusively?
As with most things, it probably was a combination of those factors and
several others.
Received on Sun Jul 09 2000 - 17:01:45 BST