But the Beeb were apparently saying it was first!No one is saying win95 is first, but the one that probably brought out to the mass market rather than just computer geeks.
In any case, the Amstrad PC1512 had GEM, and Alan Sugar certainly wasn't one for marketing only to the geeks. Of course, that version of GEM was the one without overlapping windows because Amstrad and/or Digital Research probably didn't have ready access to the kind of people who could readily debunk Apple's claims of inventing such things, these people having exposure to the goings-on at Three Rivers, ICL and CMU, or at AT&T/Bell Labs, or presumably several other institutions and environments.
And as others have said, previous Windows versions were relatively widespread. Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups got into a lot of institutions.
Statistics: Posted by paulb — Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:25 pm