BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Took the idea from Apple
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Took the idea from IBM
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Took the idea from Xerox
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Took the idea from the Altair 8800
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Detailed explanation-1: -Besides, Gates knew full well that Apple took the idea for the graphical interface from the Xerox PARC labs, a research institution they both admired. When Jobs accused Gates of stealing the idea, he famously answered: “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Inspired by the January cover of Popular Electronics magazine, friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft – sometimes Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and software – to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer.
Detailed explanation-3: -Steve Jobs once said that Microsoft stole Windows from Apple, but both sides have snatched plenty of ideas over the years. Although Mac fanboys and Windows zealots don’t like to admit it, the fact is that both Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard contain features that originated in the other OS.