[ale] just installed LibreOffice in Linux, should have been easier

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Mon Mar 14 17:42:09 EDT 2011


On 3/14/2011 5:29 PM, arxaaron wrote:
> 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.

don't forget Atari. Atari ST ( 16 bit) had a gui & ran all kinds of
software back in 1986-7..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST
The *Atari ST* is a home
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer>/personal computer
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer> that was released by
Atari Corporation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Corporation> in
1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s.
The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two",^[1]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST#cite_note-0> which referred to
the Motorola 68000 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000>'s
16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals.

-- 
Paul Cartwright

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