A, RazorX, pardon my semantics, but, I never said M$ was the original of a GUI, reading more closely, I was just stating that M$ had given the PC the DOS prompt, and then brought the "pc" into the GUI World.

I would never state, emphatically, that M$ was the "original" of the GUI, when in fact, Desire is correct. Xerox had the concept, and a working "prototype" and Steve Jobs, Apple, saw it and used it to create the familiar Mac OS with it, then Bill Gates saw it within the confinds of Apple, and took it from their.

But, RazorX, you have to admit, UNIX was used in FLOOR and BUILDING sized mainframes at the time, and the "lowly" PC was in its infantcy at the time, M$ had DOS, Apple was working on it Mac OS for its first "brain-child" Plus computer (now known as "Classic"), and Mr. Gates saw the use of Apple's OS for a way to bring the "lowly" PC into the GUI world.

I am sure I, and you, can banter back and forth about this, but, I "never" said M$ was the "original" of the GUI, just the one that brought the PC into that world, through M$. NOW, Linux, and all of its flavors, are bring the PC into, what could only be run on mainframes, down to Earth for the common PC.

Thank you for noticing,
Cuddles