..for about 6 months...
> The original Mac, only a single floppy for storage and not really enough memory was more a proof of concept.
The first 128K dev machines (dual floppy) were shipped early February 1984 the first 512K's and HD20's by September. Still usable as dev machines even when we got the first Mac II's at the end of '86. I was using dual monitor Mac Plus's in 1986 and a 4 monitor continuous desktop Mac II in 1987. With a zero config network to three other Macs. Some proof of concept.
> W95 looks to have owed rather a lot in functionality to MWM, HP VUE and their successor, CDE with a good deal of underpinnings from HP New Era.
Nope. Run Win 95 side by side with any of the above. Then run System 7. From 1991. That's how wrong you are. Going from Win3.1 to Win 95 was quite jarring. Going from System 7 was very straight forward. Apart from all the stuff Win95 was still missing. Win7 was the first release that pretty much got there. Which is why most serious dev work at the time was still done on Win NT 3.x with testing on Win95 if needed.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
