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To: P8riot
Windows: n 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.

Based on an OS stolen from APPLE, who had stolen it from XEROX.

80 posted on 07/24/2010 11:47:51 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: UCANSEE2
Based on an OS stolen from APPLE, who had stolen it from XEROX.

Apple paid Xerox several million for a couple of hours looking at the interface and Xerox knew why Apple was looking at the interface and understood that Apple was making a graphical user interface. How exactly is that stealing?

84 posted on 07/24/2010 12:00:22 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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