[bwteim]

Next thing you know, you're going to tell me that Apple invented preemptive multitasking and virtual memory -- things that existed in Windows nearly 7 years before Apple "discovered" them.

Yo, Bushy, but you are not implying that Gates invented multitasking, are you? Multitasking was from AT&T labs - late 60's I think, and you'd have to credit Gary Kildall and DRI with preemptive multitasking.

[Bush2000]

Yo, Bushy, but you are not implying that Gates invented multitasking, are you? Multitasking was from AT&T labs - late 60's I think, and you'd have to credit Gary Kildall and DRI with preemptive multitasking.

Of course not. But I am saying that Apple -- considered an innovator by many of its mind-numbed followers -- didn't bother to incorporate these advances decades after they were shown to be effective.