From: "Robert G Lewis" 

I think there was Windows 286 then Windows 386 then Windows 3.0 , I
remember the reviews for Windows 3.0 - I especially liked one Comment 'A
Good First Effort', totally forgetting that Windows had been available for
5+ years. Even then the PR machine worked well.

"Joe Barr"  wrote in message
news:3df0bdf7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> I don't know when the first Windows came out.  Wasn't it that "Windows
> environment for 386" or something?  I don't believe MS started claiming it
> was an OS until 3.0 or so.  Even further in the dark on the history of
> OS/2.
>
>
> On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:59:03 +0000, Robert G Lewis wrote:
>
> > Not a bad article. I don't know that I agree with the authors view of
the
> > original vision . Also wasn't the FIRST version of Windows about 1985?
OS2
> > 1987 ? Just a couple of Nits. I think the author could have gone into
much
> > greater detail.
> >
> > Bob Lewis
> >
> > "Joe Barr"  wrote in message
> > news:3df0955a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >>
http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=296
> >>
> >> A history of the PC industry told without the benefit of MS lies.
> >>
> >>
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