Re: The history of windows.

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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:07:20 -0300

begin In <4155520d$0$4049$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>, on 09/25/2004
   at 09:45 AM, jmfbahciv@aol.com said:

>In the 60s?

Yes.

>Universities had the manpower, money and equipment to do that.

Universities were still giving away software.

>>From the examples I can remember,

The most prominent example that comes to mind is Autoflow. I believe
that Digitek was already selling compilers by then, as well.

>each software package was done
>on a per customer basis and not for general distribution.

No, unless by general distribution you mean shrink wrapped in a retail
outlet.

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