This was unlike PageMaker, which required you to buy Windows separately from Microsoft.īack then, the government was selling discounted Zenith Z-248 286 class desktop computers to its employees. Shortly thereafter, Ventura Publisher came out including its own built-in graphical user interface: the GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) Desktop Environment (GDE). That earliest version of Windows was only good for playing Solitaire and Minesweeper, and running Aldus PageMaker, one of the first bonafide desktop publishing programs introduced on the personal computer in the 1980s. This reminds of when I first showed my eldest stepson an old copy of Windows 1.0, which he remarked looked like the DOS Shell which first appeared in Microsoft DOS V4.0. When we refer to the human brain as an organic carbon-based analog computer in comparison to a mechanical silicon-based digital computer, we’re reversing the natural order of precedence, as the human brain had to exist before the computer, in order to invent it.
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