i.gizmodo.com— Yesterday we missed this in our look at the first review of Windows ever: Here's the first known photo of an Apple computer running Windows 1.0 software. Yes, Mr. Bootcamp, Windows on Apple in 1983.
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Remember back then that windows was a shell application running in dos, not an o/s.So it could run in any dos enviro.Windows 1.0 was announced in 83, but didn't hit the market until 85, looks like this mag got a beta copy to review.
Windows NT once came in a PowerPC version so it may have theoretically been able to be run native prior to Bootcamp. I say theoretically because I have no idea if anything else in the Mac at the time was supported.
No, its putting an 8088 in an apple II instead of a MOS 6502. Mac Mini and Dells have the same architecture since apple gave up on the power pc (it took them long enough). you don't need to put anything in anything, you can just remove your head from your ass.
@rac1234, you're right, the screenshot does look like a mock up.@InCider RE: " Microsoft demonstrated Windows 1.0 in 1983, but couldn't sell it until 1985, because it was based on Apple's Mac intellectual property. Bill Gates got Apple's CEO John Sculley to sign off rights to Mac inventions to Microsoft in order to keep Excel exclusive to the Mac for another two years. Nobody used Windows (and no OEMs bundled it installed on new PCs) until Win 3.x in 1990.If you read Wikipedia, historical revisionists have tried to suggest that Windows arrived before the Mac, and therefore Apple must have gotten its ideas from Microsoft, rather than the reality that Microsoft was a Mac developer and ended up showing off a ripped off version of the Mac software for the PC due to a contract loophole Gates exploited. In any event, Windows certainly wouldn't be usable on an Apple II with an 8080 card. Anyone who had ever seen Windows 1.0 or 2.0 (or even 3.0) could only laugh derisively. It was total crap."+1 for being an "insider".
allsyst3msd0wnJan 24, 2009
Remember back then that windows was a shell application running in dos, not an o/s.So it could run in any dos enviro.Windows 1.0 was announced in 83, but didn't hit the market until 85, looks like this mag got a beta copy to review.
shyguy91284Jan 24, 2009
Windows NT once came in a PowerPC version so it may have theoretically been able to be run native prior to Bootcamp. I say theoretically because I have no idea if anything else in the Mac at the time was supported.
computerfreedomJan 24, 2009
No, its putting an 8088 in an apple II instead of a MOS 6502. Mac Mini and Dells have the same architecture since apple gave up on the power pc (it took them long enough). you don't need to put anything in anything, you can just remove your head from your ass.
mrbitchJan 25, 2009
@rac1234, you're right, the screenshot does look like a mock up.@InCider RE: " Microsoft demonstrated Windows 1.0 in 1983, but couldn't sell it until 1985, because it was based on Apple's Mac intellectual property. Bill Gates got Apple's CEO John Sculley to sign off rights to Mac inventions to Microsoft in order to keep Excel exclusive to the Mac for another two years. Nobody used Windows (and no OEMs bundled it installed on new PCs) until Win 3.x in 1990.If you read Wikipedia, historical revisionists have tried to suggest that Windows arrived before the Mac, and therefore Apple must have gotten its ideas from Microsoft, rather than the reality that Microsoft was a Mac developer and ended up showing off a ripped off version of the Mac software for the PC due to a contract loophole Gates exploited. In any event, Windows certainly wouldn't be usable on an Apple II with an 8080 card. Anyone who had ever seen Windows 1.0 or 2.0 (or even 3.0) could only laugh derisively. It was total crap."+1 for being an "insider".
racheljtmJul 16, 2009
I wasnt even alive yet.. and Apple was running windows...Steve Jobs=my hero