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On 3/14/2011 5:29 PM, arxaaron wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Mac and Amiga, with fully integrated GUI systems, the later also being
the first complete, multi-media, multi-processor desktop system running
a priority preemptive multi-tasking operating environment, were
available
in 1984 and 1985 respectively. Amiga, of course, became the template
for every personal computer design since.
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don't forget Atari. Atari ST ( 16 bit) had a gui & ran all kinds
of software back in 1986-7..<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST</a><br>
The <b>Atari ST</b> is a <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer" title="Home
computer">home</a>/<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer">personal
computer</a> that was released by <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Corporation">Atari
Corporation</a> in 1985 and commercially available from that
summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for
"Sixteen/Thirty-two",<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST#cite_note-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup>
which referred to the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000">Motorola 68000</a>'s
16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Paul Cartwright</pre>
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