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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!ldjpc.apana.org.au!ldjpc.apana.org.au!not-for-mail From: Lucas.James@ldjpc.apana.org.au (JJ and the Masked Mailman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Looking for faulty myths of computer history... Date: 2 Jun 1995 10:28:10 +0930 Organization: LDJpc home un*x Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3qlnn2$b6g@ldjpc.apana.org.au> References: <3qhvaa$p8m@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ldjpc.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Keith Marshall (keithm@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au) wrote: : I'm doing an article about computer myths and I'd like people : to submit anything they know of other people who believe in : faulty myths to do with computers... like that Bill Gates : personally invented the PC or that a PC is better than a : Cray, or that that Windows was the *first* GUI. Like Apple Computer invented the GUI with the Lisa. (Wasn't it Xerox a PARC?) -- Lucas James Lucas.James@ldjpc.apana.org.au Munno Para Scout Group - Assistant Scout Leader - "Kodak" Para Rover Crew - Rover Secretary