I have seen a real old mouse last time in my computer lab back in high school. It's HUGE (size of a SHOE, I would say) and it CANNOT MOVE around. It's RECTANGLE in shape, with three RECTANGULAR buttons in front. It's kinda like your palm size and as tall as a shoe. Wonder why it's even called a mouse. (The box is kinda like a shoe box!) Anyway I see the mouse when we were doing some spring cleaning. Threw them all away. Should have kept one for myself... Damn
but i think you guys are confused over GUI instead of the mouse. i think it was Apple that invented the GUI and now MS is using it. isn't it? since GUI requires a mouse to interact. therefore MACs have mouse before PC. yes?
not sure. maybe Xerox was the one that actually put that invention to use. while Apple made it popular and PC later implemented it with Windows coming alone. in XT/DOS days i don't need a mouse. well, up to a certain extent i do need.
Anyway who have the real prove of this???? I also have a same thinking as chai Xerox is the one... If not y they create mouse>>
hrm. maybe they created a UI but not a GUI. even DOS days you can move mouse cursor around the ASCII bunch of DOS based text pages. i wouldn't exactly call that GRAPHICAL UI.
Xerox are the ones who created GUI, Apple's Steve Jobs was given a look and was immersely impressed. He then hired the engineers who created/researched on that to work for Apple, thus making them the first 'pc' to have a GUI.
My computer lect. on my Sound Engineering course and us had a few debates over pc and mac and this came up after one of us said that Bill Gates was teh guy who created GUI on WIN 3.x or something like that.
LOL. so we have the first mouse. then first mouse for the PC. then first GUI then first GUI for the PC.
That **** mikro lembut rich a** reaps everything. A big **** and nasty, con man he is. I'll be interested to see how the 'Penguin' slowly kills the big bird. Hahaha...btw, anyone here got the chance to use Lindows?!? How's it like?
i alwasy have this question in mind... if Linux's interface is superior??? why make it look like windows???
LINux's rock solid stability + WinDOW's user friendliness = ? Guess what...it adds up to...microsoft lawsuit oooh...how i luv my MX500 Just need a nice pad to go with it. Btw, how much does a ratpadz cost locally? and where to get it?
actually the linux KDE looks like the unix CDE. but i think most ppl use linux Gnome interface. well......whatever. just get the mouse you feel happy with.
Linux doesn't have to look like Windows. KDE and Gnome are just two desktop environments for Linux that resemble the Windows interface to make switching to Linux easier. With Linux you have the freedom to choose between a lot of different window managers, rather than be limited to one.
