Bill Gates on Vista and Apple's 'Lying' Ads (Mac OS X vs Vista)

[Mark Smith]

On 2 Feb 2007, at 23:52, Scott Stevenson wrote:

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> On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
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>> Who *did* invent the File/Edit/etc. menu convention?
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> It looks like the Apple Lisa group did, according to Bruce Horn:
> http://daringfireball.net/2007/02/lies_damned_lies_and_bill_gates

I think William the Turd minor is being deliberately disingenuous  
here. There is no question at all, that the GUI file, edit etc. menus  
first appeared (to the public) in Apple computers. However, I imagine  
he would say that he was referring to the fact that console-based  
programs had invokable commands ordered under file and edit headings  
as early as the appearance of the mac, possibly earlier.

I can remember a variety of shell and/or DOS tools back in the mid- 
eighties (circa '84 - '88) that had this and even earlier, there was  
something that you could argue was analogous (though I can't remember  
what exactly) on the Spekky, the Vic20 and the BBC (circa '80-'82).

Still, its a new brand of nervously defensive FUD however you look at  
it.

Mark.