Xerox Windows? No such animal. Microsoft ripped off Apple, with the undisclosed-settlement-amount settled lawsuits to prove it.
You don’t need to emulate Windows on newer Macs, you can boot from either Windows or OS X. Other than old software, I don’t know why you’d want to do that, but do it you certainly can.
It was Xerox PARC.
I’m not buyin’ it.
I started working in TV in the 70s and had to use very primitive computer language within the hardware just to insert the on-air talent’s name under his chin!
We switched to Macs as soon as they came out, but it was a VERY steep learning curve for all of us. Fortunately, I was promoted out of the editing ‘bull pen’ to field producer and left the Mac issues behind.
Picked up a personal Windows station as a lark later on and was surprised to see so many similarities.(I’m sure Gates stole the GUI) :)
As an independent producer in 1995 I had a project that forced me to purchase a whiz-bang Mac 9500 with every known video application. What a nightmare!
I tried to keep the machine alive long enough to get OS9 installed... then came the end. OSX would not work on my $7000 9500!
I learned my lesson well.
NO MORE MAC for me!
“Xerox Windows? No such animal.”
Wrong. I worked at Xerox back in the late 70’s and early 80’s. They had windowing systems on their computers as early as 1973 - way, way before IBM/Microsoft and Apple conceived of any sort of windowing environment. The Apple Lisa was a blatant ripoff of the Xerox Dandelion and Alto. Microsoft copied a lot of the ideas present in the Lisa for their earliest versions of windows.
Fact - Xerox invented the mouse.
Fact - Xerox invented ethernet.
For a fun time and a bit of interesting history, google “xerox alto”. There’s a good wikipedia page on the Alto. Xerox was way ahead of it’s time and unfortunately didn’t capitalize on it.
Mebbe true but who do you think Apple ripped off?
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. AKA Xerox PARC. They had windows and mice first.
The genesis of all windows systems came from the Xerox 8010 Star and 6085 computer systems. Xerox PARC scientists invented the mouse, networked storage, networked printing, email and the method used to map virtually every language to a computer keyboard.
The reason most people don't know about this is that Xerox management were idiots and gave a sneak peak to Steve Jobs and his Mac engineering team. They were rightfully blown away, because nobody had ever seen something as elegant and workable as the Xerox desktop.
I was fortunate to work for Xerox Parc during the early 1980's. Today, I use a Mac.